Every US ally is under attack — from the very institutions American taxpayers fund
A recent report by UN Watch highlights the influence of foreign funding on the United Nations' human rights enforcers. The findings suggest that many UN Rapporteurs are financially supported by countries like China and Russia, leading to biased statements against Western nations. This trend raises concerns about the integrity of international institutions originally designed to uphold human rights.
- ▪UN Watch released a report detailing the funding sources of UN human rights enforcers.
- ▪The report indicates that many Rapporteurs receive significant payments from countries like China and Russia.
- ▪Over a 30-month period, UN Rapporteurs issued 148 statements against Israel compared to only 64 against Russia.
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American taxpayers fund the United Nations. American diplomats built it. This week, the Geneva-based group UN Watch released the most thorough accounting yet of who actually pays the salaries and shapes the verdicts of the U.N.’s human rights enforcers. The short answer: not the United States. The 104-page dossier, “From Watchdogs to Ideologues,” surveys 13 of the UN’s 59 Special Rapporteurs — the formally autonomous specialists whose findings carry near-judicial weight at the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, Western foreign ministries, and across the global press. It documents not occasional ideological tilt but the wholesale capture of a Western-built institution by the regimes it was meant to constrain.
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