The IBA staffer organizing the event, Sara Elizabeth Dill @_SEDill, is an anti-Israel activist who routinely accuses the Jewish state of "atrocities" yet has never once condemned terrorist Hamas or Islamic Jihad for targeting civilians. twitter.com/search?q=from%…
When @SecBlinken spoke about Yom Hashoah & Holocaust remembrance, this IBA Arab Region staffer complained: "And yet they have the audacity to speak against the ICC & question its jurisdiction over modern day war crimes & genocide."
Who's the "they" & which modern-day "genocide"?
Article 1 of the IBA constitution provides that the association is "non-political" and "shall not entertain any matter which is political in character.”
So why do they allow Sara Elizabeth Dill to promote her extreme anti-Israel political agenda with tomorrow's one-sided panel?
She's not a staffer but rather her precise International Bar Association title is: "Arab Region Liaison Officer for the IBA War Crimes Committee."
Committee Co-Vice Chair Sareta Ashraph drafted chapters of the UN's infamous 2009 Goldstone Report which was celebrated by Hamas.
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3/ Irene Khan has repeatedly showered praise upon the Chinese regime and its Belt and Road Initiative, one of the factors fueling the persecution of Uighurs.
LIST OF SHAME — Members of U.N. Human Rights Council that refused to endorse request for urgent session on Iran massacre, which is being held this Friday, Jan. 23:
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇨🇳 China
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇧🇮 Burundi
🇰🇼 Kuwait
...
LIST OF SHAME — cont'd
🇦🇴 Angola
🇧🇯 Benin
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
🇬🇲 Gambia
🇬🇭 Ghana
🇮🇳 India
🇮🇩 Indonesia
🇰🇪 Kenya
🇲🇼 Malawi
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
🇹🇭 Thailand
🇻🇳 Viet Nam
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UNHRC members who did sign the request:
🇦🇱 Albania
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇨🇱 Chile
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇨🇾 Cyprus
🇨🇿 Czechia
🇩🇴 Dominican Rep
🇪🇨 Ecuador
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇫🇷 France
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇮🇹 Italy
🇯🇵 Japan
🇲🇺 Mauritius
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇲🇰 N. Macedonia
🇰🇷 Korea
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇪🇸 Spain
🇨🇭 Switzerland
🇬🇧 UK
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U.N. Human Rights Council “Shamed Into Acting” on Iran, but Deadly Delay Continues
After we called out their inaction for 22 days, the UNHRC is finally slated to meet on Iran's mass murder. Yet shamefully, not until Jan. 23rd. The deadly delay continues. unwatch.org/un-watch-welco…
For 22 days, the UN’s top human rights body has stood silent as Iran’s Islamic regime unleashed a brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters, resulting in thousands of deaths, arbitrary arrests, and widespread torture. /2
Our relentless campaign—exposing the UNHRC’s zero resolutions & utter inaction—has finally forced the Council to convene this critical meeting. This is a victory for the brave Iranian people and for human rights advocates worldwide who refused to let the UN look the other way. /3
FINALLY: After 21 days of our shaming the UNHRC for ignoring mass murder in Iran, Germany & UK have requested an urgent session on “alarming violence, crackdowns on protesters and violations of international human rights law.” Yet absurdly, likely won’t meet before next Friday.
BREAKING: Cross-regional coalition of 30 NGOs is demanding urgent UN emergency action to stop the mass killing of Iranian protesters.
Over 12,000 reportedly killed since Dec. 28. Silence now would mean complicity. The UN must act—now.
#UrgentUNSessionIranunwatch.org/global-coaliti…
2/ In a joint letter addressed to UN chief António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, and UN Member States, the coalition warned that Iran’s violent crackdown has resulted in grave, widespread, and systematic violations of international human rights law.
3/ According to credible reports cited by the coalition, more than 12,000 protesters have been killed by Iranian security forces in recent weeks, with many more injured, arbitrarily detained, tortured, or forcibly disappeared.
.@AgnesCallamard @amnesty You knew for a decade that Alaa Abd El-Fattah's family incited terrorism. In 2012, his sister Mona Seif TOLD YOU she backed Hamas attacks on civilians.
3/ Amnesty, HRW & 8 other NGOs nominated Alaa Abd El-Fattah's sister Mona Seif—who advocated terrorism—for a human rights prize. “Mona was raised in a family of human rights defenders. Her brother Alaa...” martinennalsaward.org/hrd/mona-seif/