• @HRW 2001: The UNHRC is like "a jury or police force run by suspected murderers and rapists determined to stymie investigation of their crimes." nytimes.com/2001/04/17/opi…
• @HRW 2020: "Governments with lousy human rights records sat on the UNHRC without terrible consequences."
• @HRW 2020: "Governments with lousy human rights records sat on the UNHRC without terrible consequences."
@Sophiehrw, why would you say that human rights abusers' membership on the UNHRC comes "without terrible consequences"?
The opposite is true:
1/ Abusers sitting on the UNHRC ensure that it grants impunity for most of the world’s worst regimes, including....
The opposite is true:
1/ Abusers sitting on the UNHRC ensure that it grants impunity for most of the world’s worst regimes, including....
2/ ...adopting 0 resolutions, 0 urgent sessions and 0 commissions of inquiry on gross and systematic human rights abuses perpetrated by Algeria, China, Cuba, Egypt, Hamas, Iraq, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Zimbabwe, and many others.
3/ No terrible consequences? Political prisoners in dictatorships are kicked in the stomach every time their oppressors like China, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia & Venezuela win UNHRC seats as a false badge of legitimacy.
4/ Abusers sitting on the U.N. Human Rights Council grant impunity to China, Cuba & Venezuela to routinely cheat on their human rights reviews by arranging for fake NGO submissions praising their governments’ human rights records. unwatch.org/fraud-un-venez…
5/ Tyrannies on the UNHRC appoint their apologists as human rights experts—like Jean Ziegler, creator of the “Moammar Qaddafi Human Rights Prize” and a cheerleader of the Maduro regime, who for the past two decades was the UNHRC's longest-serving official.
6/ "No terrible consequences," @Sophiehrw?
In fact, abuser regimes on the UNHRC appoint UN experts like Alfred de Zayas, who used his 2017 visit to Venezuela to falsely praise the Maduro regime & post propaganda photos denying mass hunger in the country. unwatch.org/u-n-experts-ve…
In fact, abuser regimes on the UNHRC appoint UN experts like Alfred de Zayas, who used his 2017 visit to Venezuela to falsely praise the Maduro regime & post propaganda photos denying mass hunger in the country. unwatch.org/u-n-experts-ve…
7/ The truth is that dictatorships on the UNHRC use their membership to appoint UN Special Rapporteurs like Idriss Jazairy, who used his mandate to portray the regimes of Russia, Venezuela and Syria as victims of Western sanctions. unwatch.org/genocidal-suda…
