UN WATCH
by Hillel Neuer
June 25, 2015
Ahead of Debate on Gaza Report, UN Watch Releases Evidence of Systematic Bias at UN’s Top Rights Body
In the nine years of its existence, the UN Human Rights Council has condemned Israel more times than the rest of the world combined, revealed UN Watch today, ahead of a new report to be released by the Geneva-based NGO that documents endemic selectivity and politicization at the world body. The outcome resolution for the latest Gaza report, to be introduced at the UNHRC this week by the Palestinians together with the Arab and Islamic states, will condemn Israel exclusively, and will mark the 62nd resolution targeting Israel since the new and improved Council was created in 2006 — while the total of all other UNHRC condemnatory resolutions for the rest of the world amounts to 55, with most of the worst violators given a free pass, if not a seat on the council itself. READ MORE
Total UNHRC Condemnations, 2006-2015
| Israel: 61 Syria: 15 Myanmar: 12 North Korea: 8 Iran: 5 Belarus: 4 Eritrea: 3 Sri Lanka: 3 Sudan: 2 Libya: 2 Honduras: 1 Afghanistan: 0 Algeria: 0 China: 0 Cuba: 0 |
Equatorial Guinea: 0 France: 0 Iraq: 0 Lebanon: 0 Russia: 0 Pakistan: 0 Somalia 0 Turkmenistan: 0 UK: 0 USA: 0 Uzbekistan: 0 Venezeula: 0 Vietnam: 0 Yemen: 0 Zimbabwe: 0 |
Total on Israel: 61
Rest of World Combined: 55
ArchitectGuy on Israel 