Cliquez ici pour le français Oct. 7, 2022 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is calling for an immediate special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to be held on Iran and is asking Canada to spearhead the demand. Unfortunately, the Council is best known for its obsession with condemning Israel and ignoring […]
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United Nations Human Rights Council (Brookings Institute) CLIQUEZ ICI pour le français August 3, 2022 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada today asked the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Chair to dissolve a Commission of Inquiry that has become a mouthpiece for Hamas and a driver of antisemitism. The Commission of Inquiry made international headlines
April 7, 2022 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada applauds today’s historic vote at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The UNGA voted 93-24, with 58 abstentions, thereby reaching the 2/3 majority of voting members required to adopt the unprecedented motion of suspending a UNHRC member. B’nai Brith supports the measure in light of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the increasing evidence of Russian
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March 15, 2022 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada has formally asked Bob Rae, Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations, to help remove the highly biased Chair of the “Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories” of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). B’nai Brith urged Rae to raise Navi Pillay’s lack of
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July 17, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is calling for change at the United Nations in response to its systemic antisemitism and anti-Israel bias. Recent documents by the United Nations Human Rights Council and its Special Rapporteur ‘on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967’ have once again called into
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June 20, 2018 The following is a press release issued by B’nai Brith International. GENEVA – The United States’ decision to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) presents the international organization with an important opportunity for dramatic and urgently needed reform, as the steady politicization of the body has rendered it largely irrelevant
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By Simon Pelsmakher B’nai Brith Canada On July 4, it was reported that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued a joint statement calling for Saudi Arabia to be suspended from United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Founded in 2006, the UNHRC is a 47 member-state organization dedicated to promoting human rights around the globe.
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