Thread by @HillelNeuer

🌟 THE TOP 10 WORST U.N. ACTIONS OF 2020 🌟

10. Syria Retains Senior Post at UN Committee Responsible for ‘Decolonizing’ Gibraltar, Falklands, American Samoa

unwatch.org/syria-elected-…

9. UN Rights Review Praises Tehran’s Record

When Iran came up for a mandatory UNHRC review of its human rights record, 85% of delegates actually praised Tehran's record.

Russia hailed “Iran’s cooperation with human rights treaty bodies.”

unwatch.org/iran-praised-i…

8. China Joins Key U.N. Panel to Select World Human Rights Investigators on Free Speech, Disappearances, Arbitrary Detention

https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1245890358342553603

7. UN Elects China, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan to Top Human Rights Body

As a result, in 2021, non-democracies on the U.N. Human Rights Council will rise from 51% to a staggering 60%.

unwatch.org/non-democracie…

6. UN's World Health Organization Praises China for ‘Transparency’ on Coronavirus

As the coronavirus started to spread from the Wuhan region, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus applauded the “transparency” of the Chinese response.

https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1220421162251051008

5. UNGA Condemns Israel 17 Times, Rest of the World 6

EU states backed 2/3 of the resolutions on Israel, yet failed to bring even one resolution on China, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Cuba, Turkey, Pakistan, Vietnam, Algeria, or 175 other countries.
unwatch.org/unga-condemned…

4. UN's WHO Names China Booster Helen Clark to Head COVID-19 Inquiry

The ex-PM of New Zealand must recuse herself for having praised WHO for the very actions she's meant to investigate, and her extensive ties with the Chinese regime, dating back 4 decades.unwatch.org/who-covid-19-i…

3. UN Elects Turkey to Head General Assembly in 2020-2021

The oppressive Turkish regime of @RTErdogan took over the presidency of the UN General Assembly for the 2020-2021 session.

Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkir was the sole candidate for the post.

https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1306280762556264453

2. UN Rights Council Attacks Western Sanctions, Backs Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba

Ms. Alena Douhan of Belarus, the UN's new Special Rapporteur on “unilateral coercive measures,” used her first report to condemn Western sanctions that target Iran, Syria, Venezuela and Cuba.

1. UN Rights Office Passed Names of Dissidents to China, Whistleblower Reveals

The UN human rights office had a practice of secretly handing over names of dissidents to China, revealed whistleblower Emma Reilly, potentially putting their lives in danger.

https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1322928964273348610

Getting the names allowed Beijing to know in advance which Uyghur and other activists were registered to attend sessions of the UN Human Rights Council—putting their lives in danger, as well as those of their family members living in China.

scmp.com/news/china/dip…

Dolkun Isa of the World Uyghur Congress, and Chinese dissident Yang Jianli, a board member of UN Watch, were two of the names provided to the Chinese government by the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, according to emails seen by the South China Morning Post.

OHCHR spokesman Rupert Colville told the Post that the practice of revealing names of participants at its sessions to governments had “discontinued“ in 2015, and in any case, “care [was] taken to ensure that no action taken by OHCHR would endanger human rights activists.“

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