UN Watch

United Nations Watch
Founded1993
TypeNon-governmental organization
Location
FieldsUN monitoring, human rights advocacy
Key people
Alfred H. Moses, Chair;
Per Ahlmark, David A. Harris, Co-Chairs;
Hillel Neuer, Executive Director
Morris B. Abram, Founder
Websitewww.unwatch.org

UN Watch is a Geneva-based non-governmental organization (NGO) whose stated mission is "to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter". It is an accredited NGO in Special Consultative Status to the UN Economic and Social Council and an Associate NGO to the UN Department of Public Information.

UN Watch is a pro-Israel lobby group, and primarily denounces what it views as anti-Israel sentiment at the UN and UN-sponsored events. The organisation also denounces human rights abuses including in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Darfur, China, Cuba, Russia and Venezuela, often using its allotted time at the UNHRC to allow for dissidents and human rights activists to speak.

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