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“I deeply appreciate the valuable work performed by UN Watch. 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.” — Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General
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🇮🇷 Islamic Republic of Iran assault on protesters: 314 killed 5,328 injured 14,170 arrested 🇺🇳 U.N. Human Rights Council reaction: 0 resolutions 0 emergency sessions 0 commission of inquiry
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16-year-old Armita Geravand is now in a coma after being beaten by the morality police of the Islamic regime (which the New York Times said was disbanded). On November 2nd, the Islamic regime will be Chair of the U.N. Human Rights Council Social Forum. Why, ?
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LIST OF SHAME: Countries who just voted NO to UN General Assembly resolution on the Responsibility to Protect. 🇰🇵 North Korea 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan 🇳🇮 Nicaragua 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇮🇩 Indonesia 🇧🇮 Burundi 🇧🇾 Belarus 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇳 China 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇸🇾 Syria
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And shame on the governments who today expressed support for the illegal usurper of power Nicolas Maduro as President of Venezuela: 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇷🇺 Russia 🇹🇷 Turkey
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Brave nations who today defied the dictator Nicolas Maduro and recognized National Assembly President Juan Guaido as Interim President of Venezuela: 🇺🇸 United States 🇨🇦 Canada 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇵🇾 Paraguay 🇵🇪 Peru 🇨🇱 Chile 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇵🇪 Peru 🇪🇨 Ecuador 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
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🇨🇳 China, newly elected to the U.N. Human Rights Council, just reviewed the U.S. human rights record. "China wishes to recommend to the U.S.: 1. Root out systematic racism, address widespread police brutality and combat discrimination against African- and Asian-Americans....“
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Happening now: We are live tweeting as 🇺🇸 the U.S. record on human rights is now being reviewed at the U.N.'s Human Rights Council by Cuba, Belarus, North Korea, Syria, Iran, China & other champions of human rights.
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No joke: Ahead of U.N. review of U.S. rights record, China—which herded 1 million Muslims into camps to kill their religion & culture—asks: “What measures has U.S. taken to eliminate systematic racism, racial discrimination, white supremacy, religious intolerance and xenophobia?“
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🇰🇵 North Korea tells the U.N. Human Rights Council: "The United States, with the worst human rights record in the world, talks this and that about the human rights situation in other countries. That does not stand to reason at all."
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🇳🇬 Nigeria bans Twitter and threatens to arrest people for logging on. 🇳🇬 Nigeria sits on the U.N. committee that oversees human rights NGOs.
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🇮🇷 The Islamic Republic of Iran just confirmed the death sentence of wrestling champion Navid Afkari for participating in 2018 protests against the regime. 🇮🇷 The Islamic Republic of Iran is an elected member of the U.N. Commission on Criminal Justice. Why, ?
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The re-election of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa was marred by vote suppression, arrest of observers, voter intimidation, threats of violence, harassment and coercion. The credibility of this election is in grave doubt. We must stand with opposition like .
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No Joke: 🇰🇵 NORTH KOREA today reviewed 🇦🇺 Australia's rights record at the UN: "DPRK is concerned about human rights in Australia. We recommend to Australia: 1) End racism. 2) Cease inhuman treatment in detention centers. 3) Ensure the right of all to participate in elections."
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BREAKING: Ambassador Nikki Haley calls out 🇨🇦 Canada's U.N. "deal with the devil." In bid for UN Security Council seat, the Trudeau government "surprised Israel’s friends by voting for a North Korean resolution that challenges the legitimacy of Israel." (UN Watch NY Gala, Dec. 5)
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Human rights victims worldwide found a champion in Nikki Haley who fought for their freedom and human dignity with exemplary courage, eloquence & grace. History will remember her together with other legendary figures as one of the great American ambassadors to the United Nations.
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🇹🇷 Turkey’s illegal practice of sending Syrian mercenaries to fight in the Eastern Mediterranean and Nagorno-Karabakh has been condemned by France. When asked, the U.N spokesman refused to comment. Why, ?
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North Korea at UNHRC review of U.S. record on human rights: “We are concerned by the USA's human rights violations at home and abroad.”
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10 human rights abusers: 🇲🇷 Mauritania 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇨🇲 Cameroon 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇸🇴 Somalia 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇳 China 🇱🇾 Libya 🇨🇺 Cuba 10 UN Human Rights Council members: 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇱🇾 Libya 🇨🇳 China 🇷🇺 Russia 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇸🇴 Somalia 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇨🇲 Cameroon 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇲🇷 Mauritania
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Don't you dare pretend to be a defender of Muslims when your government signs letters PRAISING the Chinese regime for its herding of 1 million Uighur Muslims into camps. At the U.N., officially backs genocide against Muslims. We fight it: twitter.com/HillelNeuer/st
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The @UNWatch is a pro Israel NGO with evident bias against Muslims. Their tweets has nothing to do with United Nations . Such acts by pro Israel NGOs only proves tht PM @ImranKhanPTI comments of not accepting Israel has hurted all these anti Muslim lobbies twitter.com/UNWatch/status
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Wow! Rare moment of truth at the UN as Miss Iraq Sarah Idan calls out Hamas terrorism, antisemitism taught in Muslim countries, and biased media. THREAD: "Two years ago, I represented Iraq at Miss Universe. I posted a photo with Miss Israel on social media..."
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Countries criminalizing gays: 🇧🇩 Bangladesh 🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇸🇳 Senegal 🇸🇴 Somalia 🇩🇿 Algeria 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇶🇦 Qatar Countries on the U.N. Human Rights Council: 🇶🇦 Qatar 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇩🇿 Algeria 🇸🇴 Somalia 🇸🇳 Senegal 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
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"سازمان دیده‌بان سازمان ملل متحد متن پیش‌نویس قطعنامه اخراج ایران از کمیسیون مقام زن سازمان ملل را تنظیم و منتشر کرد. هیلل نویر، مدیر اجرایی این سازمان، عضویت جمهوری اسلامی در این کمیسیون را «اوج ظاهرسازی» خواند و از وزیر خارجه آمریکا خواست که این قطعنامه را ارائه دهد."
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خبر خوب: اکنون پیش نویس قطعنامه اخراج جمهوری اسلامی از کمیسیون حقوق زنان سازمان ملل را ارائه کرده ایم! اکنون ما از ایالات متحده می خواهیم که آن را رسمی کند. #مهسا_امینی twitter.com/HillelNeuer/st…
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Taliban seat on UN Commission on the Status of Women is 'likely,' says former U.S. envoy to UN. As we predicted.
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1: 🇨🇳 China Herded 1 million Uighurs into camps, jailed human rights activists, crushed Tibet, silenced courageous men and women who sounded the alarm on the coronavirus—like Dr. Li Wenliang and citizen journalist Zhang Zhan—and suffocated freedom in Hong Kong.
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🇳🇬 Nigeria President Buhari says police acted with "extreme restraint" towards protests against police brutality. FACT-CHECK: #False. Police opened fire on peaceful protesters, killing 12. 🇳🇬 Nigeria sits on the UN Human Rights Council. Why, ?
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🌎 The Top 10 Human Rights Abusers of 2020 🌎 10: 🇷🇺Russia Poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, held 362 political prisoners, tortured detainees, persecuted 300 Jehovah’s Witnesses, bombed schools, hospitals and markets in Syria, backed Belarus tyrant Lukashenko.
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BREAKING: Results of today's election of top human rights abusers to the UN Human Rights Council and % of votes they won: 🇨🇲 Cameroon 91% 🇪🇷 Eritrea 83% 🇸🇴 Somalia 88% 🇧🇭 Bahrain 85% 🇧🇩 Bangladesh 92% 🇵🇭 Philippines 85%
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🇹🇷 Turkey hired a private firm to send 1,000 Syrian mercenaries into the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, dangerously escalating tensions and threatening to drag the entire region into war. Why has the refused to comment when asked?
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Students in Tehran University take pains to avoid walking on the flags of U.S. & Israel—as the regime forces people to do—and when two Basiji regime agents then make a point of trampling the flags, the crowds shout "Besharaf!" #بی‌شرف — the regime is shameless, dishonorable.
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🇰🇵 North Korea to the U.N. Human Rights Council: "The United States is a wasteland of human rights."
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UN: "Neutrality is critical." UN General Assembly condemnations this month: 🇮🇱 Israel 21 🇮🇷 Iran 1 🇸🇾 Syria 1 🇰🇵 NKorea 1 🇷🇺 Crimea 1 🇲🇲 Myanmar 1 🇺🇸 US 1 🇩🇿 Algeria 0 🇨🇳 China 0 🇮🇶 Iraq 0 🇵🇰 Pakistan 0 🇶🇦 Qatar 0 🇸🇦 Saudi 0 🇸🇴 Somalia 0 🇹🇷 Turkey 0 🇻🇪 Venezuela 0 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 0
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Neutrality is critical for the UN to gain & maintain the confidence & cooperation of all. Wednesday is Int'l Neutrality Day: bit.ly/2ibnIN4
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“2. Urge politicians to respect peoples’ rights to life and health and stop politicizing and stigmatizing the COVID-19 pandemic. 3. Take holistic measures to eliminate political polarization and social inequality.“
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“7. Lift coercive unilateral measures; 8. Stop torture in anti-terrorist operations and halt military intervention in other countries and stop killing civilians; 9. Stop interfering for political reasons in other countries’ internal affairs under the pretext of human rights.“
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China expels American journalists for having "ideological bias" in coverage of coronavirus, Hong Kong protests & detention of Uighur Muslims. Why is China sitting on the U.N. committee that oversees human rights NGOs?
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🇳🇬 Nigeria jails indigenous opposition leader Nnamdi Kanu on “terrorism” charges for comments made on a London radio station. 🇳🇬 Nigeria sits on the U.N. committee overseeing human rights NGOs.
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🇦🇲 Out of 120,000 ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh: 65,000 fled 300 injured 200 killed 105 missing 🇺🇳 U.N. Human Rights Council reaction: 0 resolutions 0 emergency sessions 0 commission of inquiry
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SHAME: At least 4 of these democracies voted #Iran onto the UN Commission on Women's Rights. 🇦🇺 Australia 🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇨🇦 Canada 🇫🇮 Finland 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇱🇻 Latvia 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇳🇴 Norway 🇨🇭 Swiss 🇬🇧 UK 🇺🇸 US 🇵🇹 Portugal
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BREAKING: Venezuela beats Costa Rica by 9 votes to win election to UN Human Rights Council. Here are the % of votes received by top abusers just elected: 🇻🇪 Venezuela: 54% 🇲🇷 Mauritania: 89% 🇱🇾 Libya: 87% 🇸🇩 Sudan: 91%
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LIST OF SHAME: Countries who just voted NO to U.N. General Assembly condemnation of #Iran's human rights abuses. 🇰🇵 North Korea 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇳🇮 Nicaragua 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇧🇾 Belarus 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇷🇺 Russia 🇴🇲 Oman 🇨🇳 China 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇮🇳 India 🇮🇶 Iraq
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🇹🇭 Thailand sentences civil servant Anchan Preelert to 43 years in prison for sharing audio clips that criticized the monarchy. We ask you, Mr. Secretary-General : Why is Thailand an elected member of the UN Commission on Criminal Justice?
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“4. Combat the increasingly severe religious intolerance and xenophobic parties. 5. Stop incarcerating migrants including migrant children and guarantee the rights of migrants. 6. Address proliferation of guns and guarantee peoples’ rights to life.“
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🇷🇺 Russia denies jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny access to lawyers as concerns about his health grow. 🇷🇺 Russia sits on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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“Iran's regime beats, blinds, jails, tortures and kills women who speak out for their basic human rights,” said Hillel Neuer. “When the Ayatollah's representative is invited to the podium of the U.N.’s top human rights body, democracies must walk out.”
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UN Watch's on : Given China is one of the world’s most “gross and systematic abusers of human rights,” it is now essentially gaining a “free pass” after joining the U.N. Human Rights Council panel. “There will be zero resolutions on China,” said Neuer.
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Given China is one of the world’s most “gross and systematic abusers of human rights,” it is now essentially gaining a “free pass” after joining the UN Human Rights Council Panel according to Executive Director of UN Watch @HillelNeuer. bit.ly/2WGoim5
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🇨🇳 Chinese police tackle 12-year old girl during police crackdown in Hong Kong. Police have arrested 3,000 students at protests that started in June 2019. 🇨🇳 China sits on the U.N. human rights panel that is about to select experts on arbitrary detention.
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China pressures Denmark to remove art sculpture outside parliament in Copenhagen that depicts Hong Kong protesters, calling it a "site of conflict." Why is China on the UN committee overseeing human rights NGOs?
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As Iranian citizens begin fifth day of protests against oppressive, corrupt & murderous clerical regime, has anyone seen or heard any United Nations human rights official say one word about the human rights of those who have been arrested, beaten, tear-gassed, and killed?
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🇨🇳China arrests 15 pro-democracy politicians in Hong Kong, may use "hard-core repression to achieve total control over the city." 🇨🇳China just joined a U.N. panel that will select world human rights monitors.
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UN Clash: When the pro-Tehran Iraqi regime (a member of the UNHRC) told lies about its record, Miss Iraq called out their abuses—and they didn’t like it one bit. "How could you elect a government that oppresses its own people as a world guardian of human rights?"
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.: "China's appointment to a United Nations human rights panel has sparked a global outcry among human rights activists. UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said the appointment was "like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief."
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To rally world pressure on Iran's regime to prevent the execution of Navid Afkari, we call on all celebrities with a global following, especially sports stars, to please speak out. Time is of the essence. #DontKillNavidAfkari
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GOOD: France Foreign Minister calls China's treatment of Uighur Muslims "indefensible" and calls on U.N. rights chief to send mission of independent experts to probe abuses in Xinjiang.
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"Pratiques injustifiables" à l'encontre des #Ouïghours : "Puisque les autorités chinoises disent que mes propos sont infondés, nous proposons qu'une mission internationale d'observateurs indépendants se rende sur place pour rendre témoignage", lance @JY_LeDrian. #Chine #DirectAN
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Countries ranked “Not Free” by include: 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇶🇦 Qatar 🇨🇳 China 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇩🇿 Algeria Countries on the U.N. Human Rights Council include: 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇶🇦 Qatar 🇨🇳 China 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇩🇿 Algeria
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. We nominate Masih Alinejad as next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Exiled from Iran, she has become the voice of the Iranian people who risk their lives to defy the mullahs. She is a courageous, compelling & inspiring human rights activist.
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Today, I briefed @UN_HRC, opening my last session as High Commissioner. I will not be seeking a second term for personal reasons. It is time to go back to Chile & be with family. I urge States to identify common ground to achieve solutions to our shared human rights challenges.
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., chair of the 's new inquiry into the coronavirus outbreak, just blocked us—for reporting her close ties to China, WHO chief , and her apologetics for WHO wrongdoing. We are mandated to hold UN officials like her to account. Where's the transparency?
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🇨🇳 China arrests 50 in Hong Kong for protesting National Day celebrations. The activists were protesting China’s national security law & demanded 12 Hong Kong activists be freed from prison. 🇨🇳 China is running for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Neuer: "Today's election of Venezuela, Mauritania, Libya & Sudan to the UN's highest human rights body is absurd, immoral and offensive. Electing the regime of Nicolás Maduro to a human rights council is like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief."
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China retaliates against soccer player who criticized treatment of Uighur Muslims by removing him from Chinese computer games. Why is China a member of the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council?
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"When the state is against you and does not like your work then you are often attacked" says Pakistani human rights activist on recent threats against her family. Why is Pakistan on the UN committee overseeing human rights NGOs?
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LIST OF SHAME — Countries who just voted NO to UNHRC's condemnation of #Iran regime human rights abuses: 🇧🇩 Bangladesh 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇨🇳 China 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇻🇳 Vietnam Abstained: 🇩🇿 Algeria 🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇶🇦 Qatar 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇸🇩 Sudan & more...
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We are proud to announce that Shaparak Shajarizadeh, who was jailed and beaten by the Islamic Republic of Iran for taking off and waving her white headscarf in protest, will receive our highest human rights award at the 2020 UN Watch Online Gala on November 1st. #humanrightshero
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LIST OF SHAME: UNHRC members who voted against an urgent debate on Russia's invasion of Ukraine: 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇨🇳 China 🇷🇺 Russia 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇻🇪 Venezuela GOOD: Vote passed 29-5, 13 abstain. BAD: Council won't hold the debate until Thursday, so as not to disrupt their program of work.
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Thank you for always being 1st to stand up for the people of Venezuela & for supporting our campaign to expel the criminal Maduro regime from the UN's so-called Human Rights Council. 125,000 have signed & with your help we'll reach 1 million. 👉change.org/p/united-natio
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Shameful that Venezuela's corrupt socialist regime — one of the world's worst human rights abusers — will take its seat on the so-called Human Rights Council today. Help support my friends @Diego_Arria & @UNWatch’s effort to remove Maduro from the council: bit.ly/3c96as7
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.: 227 Iranian MPs call for the regime to execute protesters. In a statement read today in parliament, the lawmakers called the protesters ‘mohareb’ -- which in Islamic law means ‘enemy of God’. When is your urgent session, condemnation, inquiry?
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🇨🇳 China says its new national security law for Hong Kong is to protect against "subversion & terrorism." Fact-check: #FALSE China uses these charges to silence critics. The legislation is President Xi's charade to usurp Hong Kong autonomy and freedoms.
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🇧🇾 Belarus tells the UNHRC: "Long-range Western weapons are being used [by Ukraine] to shell civilian targets. The people of Europe cannot find out about this because Western functionaries have imposed total censorship on reporting that could discredit themselves."
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Exclusive: Russia’s counsellor to the UN resigned, the most senior diplomat to defect since the war began. "Boris Bondarev is a hero," said UN Watch's Hillel Neuer. "We call on all other Russian diplomats worldwide to follow his moral example and resign."
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🇺🇳 Spox: "The U.N. Human Rights Council is the epicenter of human rights. Candidates are elected by considering their human rights records." FACT-CHECK: #False. Minutes after saying this, the U.N. elected China, Cuba, Pakistan and Russia to the Human Rights Council.
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China authorities frame detention camps in Xinjiang as part of robust counter-terror effort when in fact they represent China's effort to systematically eliminate Uighur identity. Why is the U.N. Human Rights Council silent?
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addressing the United Nations, May 17, 2023, for the 15th Annual : “Two years ago, I woke up in a maximum security prison in Zimbabwe with no toilet, no water, and no underwear. We ate watery porridge with our hands because we didn’t have spoons.…
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