Thread by @HillelNeuer

.@UN_Women Now imagine a world where this never happens:

🇮🇷 Iran named a @UN_Women's rights judge 1 year ago this week, after it sentenced women's rights lawyer Nasrin Sotudeh to 38 years prison & 148 lashes. unwatch.org/un-picks-iran-…

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia sits on your Executive Board.

https://twitter.com/UN_Women/status/1235707161205858304

Today is #InternationalWomensDay. Tomorrow is the 64th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia is an elected member.
🇧🇪 Belgium helped elected the Saudis, we revealed in 2017, to win its own election to the Security Council.
independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

Also, in April 2018, Saudi Arabia was elected to the Executive Board of @UN_Women. I said: "Electing Saudi Arabia to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality & Empowerment of Women is like making a pyromanic into the town fire chief."

Happy #IWD2020

https://twitter.com/ksamissionun/status/985984358518542337

Finally, in June 2018, Saudi Arabia's rep was elected to the UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, a 23-member expert body that upholds the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

Happy #IWD2020.

https://twitter.com/ksamissionun/status/1004755075162673152

Here's the UN naming Iran as judge of complaints on the "Violation of the rights of women human rights defenders to freedom of expression and assembly" — one day after Iran sentenced women's rights lawyer Nasrin Sotudeh to 38 years prison & 148 lashes.

undocs.org/en/JOURNAL%20N…

And here's the video of @IrishMissionUN's Ambassador Byrne Nason, Chair of the UN women's rights commission, gaveling the election of #Iran's misogynystic regime to the @UN_Women's rights committee that judges complaints of women's rights violations.

https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1106018072257875973

By election to the UN Women’s Working Group on Communications, #Iran became a judge of the following categories of allegations of women’s rights violations worldwide:
• Arbitrary arrests of women
• Deaths and torture of women in custody
...
unwatch.org/un-picks-iran-…

• Forced disappearances or abductions of women
• Discriminatory application of punishments in law based on sex, including corporal and capital punishment
• Violation of the rights of women human rights defenders to freedom of expression and assembly
...

• Threats or pressure exerted on women not to complain or to withdraw complaints
• Impunity for violations of human rights of women
• Stereotypical attitudes towards role & responsibilities of women
• Domestic violence
• Forced marriage, marital rape
• Virginity testing
...

• Contemporary forms of slavery, including trafficking in women and girls
• Sexual harassment of women in the workplace
• Unfair employment practices based on sex, including unequal pay
...

• Lack of due diligence by States to adequately investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators of violence against women
• Discrimination against women under immigration and nationality laws
• Violations of the rights of women to own and inherit property
...

And #Iran was also made a @UN_Women judge of worldwide complaints about:

• Discrimination against women in accessing international humanitarian aid

• Forcible evictions of women in conflict situations

unwatch.org/un-picks-iran-…

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2020