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In 2001, Harris announced that UN Watch had become a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Jewish Committee. According to a press release at the time, “UN Watch was established with the generous assistance of Edgar Bronfman, President of the World Jewish Congress. Eighteen months ago, the American Jewish Committee and the World Jewish Congress reached an agreement, approved by the international board of UN Watch, to transfer full control of the organization to AJC, an agreement that went into effect on January 1, 2001.”<ref name="UN Watch, AJC Seal Partnership"/>
Since 2013, UN Watch claimed it is no longer affiliated with AJC and is an independent organization.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://unwatch.org/about-us/mission-history/|title=Mission & History}}</ref>
==Structure and status==
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In October 2008, UNHCR listed the organization as having a staff of six.<ref>{{cite web|title=UNHCR – UN Watch / United Nations Watch |author=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Non-governmental Organization Directory |publisher=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |date=1 October 2008 |access-date=3 December 2009 |url=http://www.unhcr.org/48fdece221.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218004127/http://www.unhcr.org/48fdece221.html |archive-date=18 February 2010 }}</ref> UN Watch had 110 members in 2007, geographically distributed as follows: 56% from Europe, 38% from North America, and 4% from Oceania. UN Watch's newsletter on UN issues now reaches nearly 5,000 subscribers around the world.<ref name=QuadRepo>{{cite web |url=http://esa.un.org/coordination/ngo/session/views/viewer.asp?Document=E/C.2/2007/2/Add.18&Number=4&view=2007_C2_Add_18_e.pdf&jumpto=4&session_db=..%5Cdb%5CPrevious_Sessions%5C2007_Session.mdb |title=UN: Quadrennial reports 2002–2005 submitted through the Secretary-General pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31 |publisher=United Nations |access-date=7 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222042405/http://esa.un.org/coordination/ngo/session/views/viewer.asp?Document=E%2FC.2%2F2007%2F2%2FAdd.18&Number=4&view=2007_C2_Add_18_e.pdf&jumpto=4&session_db=..%5Cdb%5CPrevious_Sessions%5C2007_Session.mdb |archive-date=22 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Commentary from the group has appeared in the [[BBC]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/01/090120_rights_and_wrongs.shtml |title=Human Rights and Wrongs at the UN |publisher=BBC |date=21 January 2009 |access-date=7 December 2011}}</ref> [[Al Jazeera]],<ref>{{cite web|author=Kristen Saloomey in New York |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2009/05/2009511225356810328.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010051612/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2009/05/2009511225356810328.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 October 2012 |title=Debate rages over UN rights council |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=7 December 2011}}</ref> [[Reuters]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=36345 |title=''Reuters'': UN urges China to protect human rights as state denies charges |publisher=Worldbulletin.net |date=9 February 2009 |access-date=7 December 2011}}</ref> ''[[Washington Post]]'',<ref>{{cite
==Board and funding==
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UN Watch strongly condemned the 2014 elections of [[Saudi Arabia]], [[China]], [[Cuba]], and [[Russia]] to the Human Rights Council. In an interview by France 24, executive director Hillel Neuer called this a “black day for human rights.”<ref>{{cite
A campaign to remove these countries from the body, "Dictator-free HRC" is ongoing along with a petition on the organization's website.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genevasummit.org/dictatorfreehrc|title=Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy|work=genevasummit.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite
===Other UN activities===
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Former UN Secretary General [[Kofi Annan]] has said "I deeply appreciate the valuable work performed by UN Watch. I believe that informed and independent evaluation of the United Nations' activities will prove a vital source as we seek to adapt the Organization to the needs of a changing world."<ref name=kofi1>{{cite web|url=http://www.charitywire.com/charity11/00664.html |title=UN Watch, AJC Seal Partnership |publisher=Charitywire.com |access-date=7 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026095608/http://www.charitywire.com/charity11/00664.html |archive-date=26 October 2011 }}</ref><ref name=kofi2>{{cite web |url=http://www.tibet.net/en/print.php?id=973&articletype=flashold |title=''Central Tibetan Administration'': UN Watch urges UN to discuss human rights violations in Tibet |publisher=Tibet.net |access-date=7 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025114440/http://www.tibet.net/en/print.php?id=973&articletype=flashold |archive-date=25 October 2011 }}</ref> At the 2006 Centennial Anniversary of the American Jewish Committee, the Director-General of the UN Office in Geneva, [[Sergei Ordzhonikidze]], praised the work of UN Watch by saying "allow me to also pay tribute to the valuable work of UN Watch in support of the just application of values and principles of the United Nations Charter and support for human rights for all."<ref name=sergei>{{cite web|url=http://www.unog.ch/unog/website/dg.nsf/(httpSpeechesByYear_en)/2C604C43486FB758C12571380047AE01?OpenDocument&year=2006&navunid=DA1302D9298CEF1E80256EF700760B0B |title=''The United Nations Office at Geneva'': The Centennial Anniversary of the American Jewish Committee |publisher=Unog.ch |access-date=7 December 2011}}</ref>
Ian Williams, former president of the [[United Nations Correspondents Association]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=1814 |title=''United Nations'': Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the United Nations Correspondents Association Dinner |publisher=United Nations |access-date=7 December 2011}}</ref> and author of ''The UN For Beginners'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenation.com/authors/ian-williams |title=Ian Williams |work=The Nation |date=2 April 2010 |access-date=16 September 2014}}</ref> wrote in an opinion piece in ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2007 that the main objective of UN Watch "is to attack the United Nations in general, and its human rights council in particular, for alleged bias against Israel". Williams supported UN Watch's condemnation of the UN Human Rights Council as a hypocritical organization, but also accused UN Watch itself of hypocrisy for failing to denounce what he called "manifest Israeli transgressions against the human rights of Palestinians."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/apr/04/itwasamakemydayevent Casting the first stone] ''The Guardian'', 4 April 2007.</ref>
''[[The New Republic]]''{{'}}s [[Martin Peretz]], in a 2007 blog piece, described the organization as "a truth-telling organization."<ref>[https://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/un-truth-telling U.N. Truth Telling] The New Republic Online, 18 June 2007.</ref> [[Claudia Rosett]], a journalist-in-residence with the [[Foundation for Defense of Democracies]], praised UN Watch as "stalwart and invaluable".<ref>{{cite web |author=Claudia Rosett |url=http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWZlZmYwY2ZkNWMyYTMyNjhmYTdkNGU1OTY3ZTM4MmI= |title=National Review Online, June 20, 2007 |publisher=Article.nationalreview.com |date=20 June 2007 |access-date=7 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202110410/http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWZlZmYwY2ZkNWMyYTMyNjhmYTdkNGU1OTY3ZTM4MmI%3D |archive-date=2 December 2007 }}</ref>
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The American journalist and political activist [[Phyllis Bennis]] described UN Watch as a "small Geneva-based right-wing organisation" that is "hardly known outside of UN headquarters".<ref>{{cite web|author=Phyllis Bennis |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/20131781532514238.html |title=Human Rights Watch: Time to stand with human rights defenders, January 9, 2013 |publisher=Al Jazeera (English) |date=9 January 2013 |access-date=7 September 2015}}</ref> She stressed that "undermining and delegitimising" [[Richard A. Falk|Richard Falk]] through "scurrilous accusations" has been an "obsession of UN Watch" when he became Special Rapporteur.<ref>{{cite web|author=Phyllis Bennis |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/20131781532514238.html |title=Human Rights Watch: Time to stand with human rights defenders, January 9, 2013 |publisher=Al Jazeera (English) |date=9 January 2013 |access-date=7 September 2015}}</ref>
''[[Agence France-Presse]]'' has described UN Watch both as "a lobby group with strong ties to Israel"<ref name=GazaAFP /> and as a group which "champion[s] human rights worldwide".<ref name=AFP2>6 May 2008, [http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQys9g2BgfcCRuQJoyEjphZGZbpA NGOs say five nations unfit to serve on UN rights body], AFP 6 May 2008</ref> ''[[The Economist]]'' has described UN Watch as a "pro-Israeli monitor".<ref>{{cite news|title=The UN Human Rights Council will be weaker if America leaves|url=https://www.economist.com/news/international/21722827-despite-its-flaws-organisation-helps-make-world-better-place-un-human-rights|access-date=2 June 2017|
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