With the misleading name, it is easily confused to be an UN Organization which it isn’t.
“UN Watch 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.”
The Organization recently called for resignation of the Professor Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, who condemned the Police Brutality that took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on January 2nd. A highly defamatory demand that lacked any substance. Nils Melzer shared videos from the 2nd January, as well as a video from previous similar abuses by the Dutch Police force from March 2021. In both instances the protestors were bitten by the trained Police dogs.
The Executive Director Hillel Neuer, tweeted on the 4th January, accusing Nils Melzer for not having investigated the cases of Police Brutality, before tweeting and condemning the actions of Dutch Police. It’s a fact Nils Melzer called for evidence after the horrendous videos started circulating in Twitter on the 2nd January. There are large number of witnesses who can testify that the Police Brutality took place in Amsterdam on Sunday the 2nd.
It is absurd to attack Nils Melzer, who seeks justice for the Dutch citizens, to be attacked by UN Watch. The motivations behind this can be well understood, as there isn’t anyone who is supervising and watching the “Watcher”. On the 6.1, Hiller Neuer tweeted an opinion given by two Dutch HR law experts, Prof. A. Buyse and Prof. C. Ryngaert, who were interviewed by Dutch news agency on the matter. No doubt this kind of statements are easily acquired, its comparable to interviewing China’s Xi, to comment if someone critical to China, did act in good faith. Incidentally the Dutch also withdrew a funding for the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Work Committees on the same day. UAWC is a leading agricultural organization in Palestine that works to support small farmers and vulnerable communities.
The UN Watch cannot be considered defending Human Rights in unbiased manner that respects the rule of law, or lives up to its mission. Human rights are universal and belong to the whole world’s population. UN Watch condemns harshly human rights abuses in China, Russia, and countries that it considers critical to Israel’s Human rights abuses of Palestinians. This discredits the UN Watch credibility to be in position to criticise the United Nations Human Rights Institutions and especially Professor Nils Melzer, who is defending human rights of the whole world’s population. Regardless of political, race, religion or sexual orientation.
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