It would be bad manners to comment on decisions of my estimable successors at the @EHRC David Isaac and Kishwer Falkner, both appointed in much the same way as I was.But I served a three full terms at CRE/EHRC under both Labour administrations and Tory/Lib Dem coalition…..1/5
…so being the only other person to go through the proposed UN process may I respectfully suggest to @EHRC critics that they consider the irony of arraigning Falkner before a body whose expert committee recently appointed as its rapporteur a longtime representative from….2/5
……Uganda, where homosexual acts get you life in prison; or demanding that a Pakistani heritage Muslim woman be judged by a body whose advisory group proudly features representatives from Saudi Arabia, China and Russia given their records on women’s and LGBTQ+ rights….3/5
To be fair, I do have beef with the UN human rights conference circus, which declared me persona non grata when I led the EHRC….partly because when I was asked to endorse the appointment of Saudi Arabia to the chair of a UN body sitting in judgement on the rights of women….4/5
……I laughed out loud and couldn’t stop. I do hope the current EHRC is not asked to pay a price for my over-developed sense of the absurd…..5/5
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