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Jean-Claude Buhrer

b. 1953

French journalist

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Born 1953. Jean-Claude Buhrer is a French journalist.

Jean-Claude Buhrer is a Swiss journalist and author. He reported for Le Monde. He has been on the UN Watch board. He has written about Asia and Latin America. A Mother Jones article referred to Buhrer as the "world's leading" watcher of Swiss Nazi supporter François Genoud.

French journalist and orientalist Claude B. Levenson (died 2010) was his wife and co-author.

Buhrer received "La Pluma de Plata Mexicana" in 1993 for his articles on Mexico in the newspaper Le Monde.

In 2007 he was interviewed about protests in Burma. In 2009, he was interviewed about political violence in Thailand.

He has been critical of the UN Commission on Human Rights. He wrote about Mexican journalist Manuel Buendia who was assassinated. Buhrer was banned from China because of his articles about Tibet.

Writings Allende un itinéraire sans détours, 1974, L'Âge d'homme. Le Guatemala et ses populations, avec Claude B. Levenson, 1980, Complexe, D'Asie et d'ailleurs, avec Claude B. Levenson, Éditions Balland, 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi, demain la Birmanie, avec Claude B. Levenson, Ed. Philippe Picquier, 2003, Sérgio Vieira de Mello - Un espoir foudroyé, avec Claude B. Levenson, Éditions Mille et Une Nuits, 2004, L'ONU Contre Les Droits De L'homme, avec Claude B. Levenson, Éditions Mille et Une Nuits, 2003, Birmanie : des moines contre la dictature, avec Claude B. Levenson, Éditeur : Mille et Une Nuits, 2008, Tibet, Tibétains, Un peuple, un regard, avec Claude B. Levenson, Glénat, 2010,

Articles L'ONU captive de la Chine à propos du Tibet, ProChoix Un bilan mitigé du Conseil des droits de l'homme, 7 juillet 2006, Reporters sans frontières RSF juge le bilan du Conseil des droits de l'homme plus que mitigé, 7 juillet 2006, Reporters sans frontières Aung San Suu Kyi, une Lady au pouvoir, Le Temps, 21 avril 2016 UN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS LOSES ALL CREDIBILITY, juillet 2003, Reporters sans frontières Human Rights on the rocks at the UN, 22 avril 2004, Reporters sans frontières Another sign of failure for Human Rights Council in resolution on Lebanon, 12 août 2006

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1953
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Le Monde

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French journalist

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Jean-Claude Buhrer was born in 1953.

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· Wikipedia: Jean-Claude Buhrer

· Wikidata: Q3164874

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