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		<title>UN: We still consider Gaza &#8220;occupied&#8221; by Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, on Jan. 6, the UN chief&#8217;s spokesman promised to respond to UN Watch&#8217;s question as to why the UN still considers Gaza &#8220;occupied&#8221; even though Hamas admits it&#8217;s not, given that Israel hasn&#8217;t been there since 2005. The UN has now answered: Spokesperson:  Under resolutions adopted by both the Security Council and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/01/27/un-we-still-consider-gaza-occupied-by-israel/</link>
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		<title>UNESCO praised participation of Syria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Nov. 22, UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova distanced herself from UNESCO&#8217;s election of Syria to two human rights committees, with her spokesperson telling UN Watch, &#8220;given the developments in Syria, the Director-General does not see how this country can contribute to the work of the Committees.&#8221; However, only three weeks earlier, her approach toward Syria&#8217;s role at UNESCO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/01/26/unesco-praised-participation-of-syria/</link>
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		<title>Syria may be kicked off UNESCO rights panel thanks to UN Watch campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA, Jan. 25 – For the first time in its history, the UN’s culture and education agency is preparing to condemn Syria and expel it from a human rights committee, revealed a Geneva-based human rights organization today, releasing a motion filed by the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and six other countries, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/01/25/syria-may-be-kicked-off-unesco-rights-panel-thanks-to-un-watch-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Correction: On William Schabas and Richard Goldstone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UN Watch&#8217;s recent briefing listed international law scholar William Schabas among those who had hailed Richard Goldstone as a saint after his UN report, only to turn on him when he retracted it. In response, Professor Schabas states as follows: &#8220;I have never turned on my good friend Richard Goldstone, ‘with a vengeance&#8217; or otherwise.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/01/17/correction-on-william-schabas-and-richard-goldstone/</link>
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		<title>Iran Censorship Extends to Golden Globes Stage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The contrast couldn’t have been any clearer at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony Sunday when it came to presenting the prize for Best Foreign Language Film. Host Ricky Gervais’s irreverence for authority, and Madonna’s unrestrained immodesty were – for better or for worse – testaments to the universal right to express oneself freely. Then came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/01/17/iran-censorship-extends-to-golden-globe-stage/</link>
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		<title>Released Burma Dissident: We&#8217;re On a Leash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two Burmese dissident journalists spotlighted during UN Watch’s September human rights summit in New York are among political prisoners just released by the Burmese government. The plights of Sithu Zeya, 21, and Hla Hla Win, 27, featured in the We Have a Dream presentation of Dr. Thaung Htun, United Nations representative of the opposition-in-exile National [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/01/15/burma-dissidents-highlighted-at-un-watch-summit-among-those-released/</link>
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		<title>After Embracing PLO, UNESCO Lobbies  to Circumvent U.S. Funding Penalty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UNESCO officials are braced for &#8220;months&#8221; of back-and-forth with the United States as they seek restoration of U.S. funding following mandated cuts in response to the Paris-based agency&#8217;s embrace of &#8220;Palestine&#8221; as a member, diplomatic sources report. One confirmed that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has been seeking ways to effect a waiver of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/01/13/unesco-officials-frustrated-by-congressional-hold-out-over-funding/</link>
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		<title>Islamic States Pledge Tolerance as Report Says They Practice Persecution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Concerns about an Islamic-sponsored “combating intolerance” initiative at the United Nations are brought into sharp relief by results of a new world survey on religious persecution. Muslim nations make up nine out of the top ten countries where Christians face the &#8220;most severe&#8221; persecution, and 38 of the top 50, reports U.S.-based Open Doors in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/01/13/islamic-states-pledge-tolerance-as-report-says-they-practice-persecution/</link>
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		<title>Arab League Poll Choices: Good, Very Good, Excellent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arab League&#8217;s human rights monitoring mission in Syria is seen as a sick joke by the victims on the ground. Protesters across Syria, reports Al Jazeera, are calling for it to end. The mission is headed by Sudanese General Mohammad Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, whose main expertise on human rights abuses lies in committing them on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/01/10/arab-league-website-voting-choices-good-very-good-excellent/</link>
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		<title>China-Uyghur Clash: UN Watch Summit Speech Prescient</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an operation aimed at countering “violent terrorists,” Chinese government authorities killed seven “kidnappers” who were trying to leave the country to attend “foreign jihad camps” – but had stopped along the way to take two hostages. That’s the official Chinese backstory – presented at a press conference this week – to a Dec. 28 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/01/08/china-uyghur-clash-un-watch-summit-speech-prescient/</link>
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