No joke: UN elects Iranian regime to top women's rights body.

Electing Ayatollah Khamenei's Islamic Republic of Iran to protect women’s rights is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief.

unwatch.org/un-elects-iran…
This is a black day for women’s rights, and for all human rights.

Iran’s persecution of women is gross and systematic, both in law and in practice. The UN’s own secretary-general has reported on Iran’s ‘persistent discrimination against women and girls.'
Iran’s fundamentalist mullahs force women to cover their hair, with many arrested and attacked daily under the misogynistic hijab law. They require a woman to receive permission from her father to get married.
The legal age for a girl to marry in Iran is 13—with even younger girls allowed to marry with paternal and judicial consent.
Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime imprisons courageous women’s rights activists, such as Nasrin Sotudeh, Mojgan Keshavarz, Yasaman Aryani, and Monireh Arabshahi, for the crime of peacefully demanding their human dignity.
Why, then, did the UN name one of the world’s worst oppressors of women as a world judge and guardian of gender equality and the empowerment of women?
Today the UN sent a message that women’s rights can be sold out for backroom political deals, and it let down millions of female victims in Iran and worldwide who look to the world body for protection.
Caught on video: that moment yesterday when the United Nations announces the election of the misogynistic mullahs' regime to its highest women's rights body. unwatch.org/un-elects-iran…

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19 Apr
25 human rights groups are honored to announce the 2021 Geneva Summit Courage Award goes to Alexei Navalny.

He barely survived after being poisoned in August with Novichok nerve agent. He returned to Russia. Putin threw him in prison. He may now be dying.
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.@leonidvolkov, the dissident’s chief strategist, welcomed the news. “It is very important and valuable that Alexey Navalny’s moral courage is recognized internationally exactly at that point of time when he goes through the most challenging test of his life,” said Volkov.
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.@amnesty: “The tweet was written in haste and is incorrect. It does not reflect the position of Amnesty or Agnès Callamard.”

Actually, her rush to falsely condemn Israel without checking the facts is Amnesty's modus operandi when it comes to Israel.
jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/amnesty-intern…
After I called out the tweet below by Amnesty International's new secretary-general Agnès Callamard, the organization acknowledges that the tweet is "incorrect."

So why are you still keeping this lie posted on your account, @AgnesCallamard @amnesty?

Callamard's rush to falsely accuse Israel of murder is reminiscent of Amnesty's 2019 rush to falsely accuse Israel of bombing a Gaza human rights organization’s office—when it was actually a misfired rocket by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group. algemeiner.com/2019/11/13/amn…
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No joke: Agnes Callamard, the new head of Amnesty International, once declared that Arafat was murdered, the Israelis did it, and President Shimon Peres admitted this. All lies.

Note: Callamard was the U.N. Human Rights Council's “expert“ on assassinations. Not making this up.
On the contrary, the NYT interview which she cited says that Peres protected Arafat, and justified his peace negotiations with him. nytimes.com/2013/01/13/mag…

Arafat died at age 75, in a French military hospital near Paris. A French inquiry found no evidence that he was “murdered.“
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.@GWR Do you have a Guinness World Record for United Nations interruptions?

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At the U.N. in 2016, Venezuela, Cuba, China, Russia, and Pakistan tried to silence me: unwatch.org/9479-2/
At the U.N.'s Durban II racism conference in 2009, Iran tried to silence me:
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UNHRC just adopted resolution on “Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.“

•19 pars criticize Israel
•1 criticizes rockets on Israel, but doesn't name Hamas
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Shame on France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands for joining the jackals.
Shame on Denmark, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Korea, Uruguay for incentivizing Hamas terror.

Disappointed UK didn't have courage to vote No.

Notable: India shifts from Yes last year to Abstain. Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Togo shift to No.

📜 documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/…
Text of the PLO-written resolution: unwatch.org/wp-content/upl…
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unwatch.org/born-in-sin-th…
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See how the UN rewrote history in this timeline: unwatch.org/wp-content/upl…
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