Fran Butensky, one of ICJW’s representatives at the UN in New York, attended a meeting at UN HQ with the out-going High Commissioner For Human Rights on May 11, 2018. This one hour meeting with Zeid Ra’ad Al was his last with the Human Rights Committee in New York because his term as High Commissioner […]
ICJW’s representative to the UN in Geneva, Eftichia Simha, reports on a panel Discussion on the World Programme for Human Rights Education entitled “What Focus for the Fourth Phase?” The discussion was organized by the NGO Working Group on Human Rights Education and Learning with the co-sponsorship of the States platform on Human Rights Education (Brazil, […]
ICJW representative Eftihia Simha, ICJW representative to UN Geneva, attended the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, organized by UN Watch on February 20th 2018, one week before the 37th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Courageous dissidents, human rights victims, activists, diplomats, journalists and students gathered to speak out about urgent […]
ICJW representatives attended a CSW62 Side Event sponsored by UN Watch and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights on March 20, 2018, which was a panel discussion between leading female advocates on the subject of Human Rights Defenders. Opening remarks were made by Dan Smith, the New York Associate for UN Watch: UN Watch […]
