UN Watch is deeply grateful to our many thousands of friends and supporters worldwide who signed the petition, and in some cases made personal appeals, to urge Facebook to remove its threat to delete our Executive Director’s Facebook page. We also commend senior officials at Meta, the parent company of Facebook, who took quick action when apprised of […]

In response to the continuing COVID-19 surge in the province, the Provincial Court of Alberta has extended court closures for an additional two weeks. Until February 4, 2022, all non-urgent out-of-custody trials, preliminary inquiries and other hearings requiring viva voce evidence will be adjourned. All dockets are open but continue remotely. Further details on the […]

An international human rights activist with 49,000 followers on Facebook has been threatened with the deletion of his account for having criticized the Taliban. Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, an independent Swiss-based human rights group, has received a severe warning from Facebook that his page was “at risk of being unpublished” due to […]

Nouvel ouvrage de Carl Berstein qui avec Bob Woodward tous deux journalistes au Washington Post ont lancé le scandale du Watergate. Pour le commander: https://www.amazon.ca/Chasing-History-Newsroom-Carl-Bernstein/dp/1627791507

The independent non-governmental monitoring group UN Watch has just released its acclaimed annual ranking, The Top 10 Worst U.N. Actions for 2021. See below. UN Watch, a Swiss human rights organization founded in 1993 in Geneva by former UN human rights expert Morris Abram, is the leading organization at the United Nations working to reform […]

Vœux des Fêtes De Très Joyeuses Fêtes au monde juridique Les avocats, les juges, les notaires et tout le personnel impliqué dans l’administration de la justice au Québec, méritent un merci tout spécial pour leur résilience, leur façon de respecter les justiciables en ces temps de pandémie rares. Toutes ces actrices et acteurs du monde […]

The Justice Department today overturned a Trump administration memo that would have forced thousands of people transferred from prison to home confinement during COVID-19 to go back to prison.   Statement from ACLU Justice Division Director Udi Ofer:   “We commend Attorney General Garland for his leadership and for listening to thousands of families who […]

An international alliance of human rights activists and parliamentarians will today launch a campaign in solidarity with imprisoned Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai. Politicians from the UK, France, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada and other countries worldwide will join prominent rights defenders in posting a “Letter to Lai,” a short video message expressing support for […]

La plus importante entente entre la Chine et 14 autres partenaires de l’Asie-Pacifique jamais conclue excluant les Etats-Unis datant d’un an déjà a été mis au jour par Jean-François Lépine, représentant du Québec à Shanghail, en Chine, depuis 2015 lors d’une interview avec Patrick Lagacé à Radio-Québec diffusée le 29 novembre 2021. Voici les détails […]

CANADIAN National (CN) is to receive $US 1.4bn in termination fees through two payments, each of $US 700m, from Kansas City Southern after the latter provided a notice of termination of the planned CN-KCS merger announced on May 21. KCS will pay CN $US 700m cash for a ‘Company Termination Fee’ and a further $US […]