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Counting down The Top Ten Worst UN Moments of 2018.
10. Report of Alfred de Zayas, first UN rights expert to visit #Venezuela, portrayed the Maduro regime as a victim—the West being the perpetrator—and failed to mention the term “political prisoners” once. unwatch.org/top-10-worst-u…
10. Report of Alfred de Zayas, first UN rights expert to visit #Venezuela, portrayed the Maduro regime as a victim—the West being the perpetrator—and failed to mention the term “political prisoners” once. unwatch.org/top-10-worst-u…
9. #Turkey’s Erdogan regime—which arrests, jails & persecutes human rights activists, journalists, and dissidents—was elected Vice-Chair of @UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, which oversees the activity of human rights activists at the UN. unwatch.org/top-10-worst-u…
8. The UN let #Cuba cheat on a mandatory review of its human rights record by submitting hundreds of fake NGO submissions hailing the repressive regime's human rights record—including submissions from the "Cuban Federation of Canine Sports" & the "Cuban Plastic Surgery Society."
7. #SaudiArabia, the world's most misogynistic regime, won election to UN’s three main women’s rights bodies: UN Commission on the Status of Women, UN Entity for Gender Equality & Empowerment of Women (@UN_Women) & the UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
6. UN rights chief @Raad_Zeid, Special Rapporteur on Iran Asma Jahangir & other top UN officials for days turned a blind eye to Iran’s bloody crackdown on protesters. Only after being shamed by this viral tweet & other pressure did they finally speak out.
5. The UN broke its own rules by electing notorious abusers to the Human Rights Council: Eritrea, Somalia, Cameroon & more. UN Watch exposed the scandal in a joint report with HRF & RWCHR that was featured in The Guardian. theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
4. In 21 resolutions, the UN General Assembly condemned Israel more times than it did Iran, Syria, North Korea & every other country in the world put together. But when Nikki Haley tried to pass a resolution condemning Hamas, or holding Cuba to account, they refused to do so.
3. When #SaudiArabia & #China underwent mandatory UN reviews of their rights records—which @KenRoth promised would be “tough probing”—Saudi Arabia won praise from 75% of the delegations; the next day, China was praised by 86% of speakers @UN_HRC.
2. The annual report by Idriss Jazairy, who was specifically appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to fight Western sanctions on dictators, described the world's worst regimes—Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Qatar, Russia, Sudan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Yemen & Syria—as victims.
1. And the absolute Worst UN Action of 2018: #Syria, which gasses its own people, was allowed to become President of the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament, the body that established the ban on chemical weapons. "Syria is honored to preside..." Listen:
