Saudi Arabia’s and the UAE’s involvement in conflicts and civil wars in countries like Yemen and Libya is causing growing alarm among critics as concerns spread about their heavy handed imprint on human rights violations in the Middle East region, said International United Nations Watch in a new report.
International United Nations Watch expresses deep concern over the recent statement by India’s General Bipin Rawat that suggests “deradicalization camps” for Kashmiris.
In 2017, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) published a report estimating that 27 million children in conflict zones were out of school, noted Maya Garner of International United Nations Watch.
Protests have continued in Algeria, following the April resignation of longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who ruled the country for nearly two decades. Bouteflika became president at the end of a bloody civil war that pitted the Algerian military against a collection of insurgent groups, wrote Zenab Ahmed for International United Nations Watch .
The recent wave of anti-abortion laws being passed across U.S. states is a “concerning” development, according to a UN spokesperson. The new restrictions come just weeks after the U.S. threatened to veto a UN resolution on sexual violence in conflict, and the use of rape as a weapon of war, wrote Maya Garner for International United Nations Watch .
Earlier this year, the United Nations warned that the crisis in Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. International United Nations Watch brought experts at the UK parliament to discuss UN role in Yemen.
International United Nations Watch notes with concern that recent missile strikes near Tripoli appear to show evidence of covert involvement by the United Arab Emirates,
When the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 in response to the beginnings of the Libyan Civil War in early 2011, this became the first military implementation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), which places the responsibility on the international community to protect civilians of a state unable or unwilling to offer such protection itself, said Maya Garner of The International United Nations Watch.
There has been a rapid increase of the number of NGOs which receive political money to promote specific agendas at the UNHRC, said International United Nations Watch.
1- What is the role of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education?
My job and responsibility is to ensure that the right to education is being fulfilled and enacted around the world and to report on violations.
