Left-wing foundations quietly fund UN human rights ‘experts,’ watchdog says

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U.N. “human rights” experts are taking six-figure donations from leftist nonprofit groups without properly disclosing them all, a watchdog group alleges.

Research unveiled by the Geneva-based UN Watch on Monday traced funding from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation to current and former U.N. special rapporteurs. The watchdog raised concerns that such influence could compromise the rapporteurs, who the U.N. appoints as independent experts to monitor human rights abuses in specific territories.

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