Posted on 11/02/2023 4:36:34 AM PDT by Milagros
GENEVA, October 30 — Iran will become chair of a UN human rights forum on Thursday, sparking an international protest campaign from human rights activists who say Tehran’s record of oppression, torture and executions make it ill-suited for the post.
The regime was appointed in May by the president of the UN Human Rights Council.
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell defended Iran’s appointment as a matter of regional rotation, “in consistency with established UN procedures.”
But UN Watch research shows in fact that the Asian group, to which Iran belongs, has held the position four times in the past six years, to the exclusion of other regional groups.
Iran’s appointment can be overturned by a special meeting of the council before Thursday, said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, an independent non-governmental human rights organization based in Geneva, which has drafted a resolution for countries to adopt.
UN Watch has been a leading voice at the United Nations on human rights in Iran.
UN Watch’s campaign is backed by a global petition signed by more than 90,00 people, calling on the UN to overturn Iran’s chairmanship of the UN human rights forum.
The group today launched a social media campaign, and a video of Neuer’s recent appearance before the UN human rights council, where he challenged Iran’s appointment, is going viral with more than a million views since its release this afternoon.
“We are calling on Mr. Borrell to take action. It’s time for all democracies at the UN to stop legitimizing murderous regimes, in violation of the world body’s founding principles, and instead to begin holding the perpetrators to account,” said Neuer.
“The murderous regime in Tehran is responsible for a surge in executions, disproportionately applied to minorities, and for oppressing women and girls. The recent death of 16-year-old Armita Geravand, after being assaulted on the subway by the Iranian morality police for not wearing the compulsory hijab, is a reminder that this is a cruel regime that does not belong on any UN human rights body, let alone as chair.”
Why not its arm: Hamas?
I believe Hamas is being tapped to do the sign language
for deaf cultures that want to know what Iran has to say.
Meanwhile, Iran i losing.
First the Houthi and now Hamas. The Hamas pressure point Iran uses to destabilize Israel is being obliterated one Refugee Camp and tunnel at a time
Iran is hiding behind the skirts of Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis.
Iran pretends others are the guilty parties and is without terrorist sin
Iran needs to be nuked
In the world of diplomacy, you have to pretend all cultures are equal. Probably, as a diplomat, you might believe this.
It’s easy to believe it if you only deal with diplomats and don’t live in the other culture as someone who isn’t at the top of the food chain. Everyone who dealt with the Nazi diplomats found them to be urbane, friendly, fun to be with and terrific dinner companions. That’s the nature of a successful diplomat. So, it’s hard to deny them the equal rights the west goes on so much about. Thus, we end up with absurdities like putting misogynistic* racists in charge of the Human Rights Council. Afterall, they’re wonderful dinner guests.
* Using all the descriptive words that apply in this sentence would have turned this post into a thesaurus entry.
You need to understand how the OIC has framed terms to see what is meant by “human rights”. Human rights is Islam and whatever advances islam. Everything else is secondary to this conceit, this legal presumption.
Until we deal with the definitions used expect more of the same.
Because Hamas is not a "nation". But this is close enough for them.
US out of UN and vice versa. And not just because of this one thing.
Why not, it’s just another emblematic display of the joke known as the United Nations.
Or unitedNothin’
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