Jean-Claude Buhrer


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 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,
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