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Dec 26, 2021 10 tweets 4 min read Read on X
We now present our annual ranking: “The Top 10 Worst U.N. Actions of 2021.”

🧵 Thread of dread:

10. U.N. Review Praises Slave-Holding Mauritania’s Human Rights Record
unwatch.org/unhrc-delegate…
9. U.N. Human Rights Council Ends Yemen Investigation After Saudi Pressure
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8. Belarus Lukashenko Regime Elected to U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention
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7. Dictators Now Comprise 68.1 % of U.N. Human Rights Council
6. U.N. Monitor Alena Douhan Blames West for Venezuela Collapse, Absolves Maduro
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5. U.N. General Assembly Condemns Israel 14 Times, Rest of the World 5
unwatch.org/un-completes-1…
4. Syria’s Assad Regime Elected to WHO Executive Board

unwatch.org/syria-elected-…
3. UNHRC Urgent Session on Afghanistan Ignores Taliban Atrocities, Fails to Create Inquiry
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2. U.N. Rights Office Fires Whistleblower for Revealing They Handed Names of Dissidents to China
unwatch.org/un-fires-whist…
1. U.N. Elects Islamic Republic of Iran to Top Women’s Rights Body
unwatch.org/un-elects-iran…

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Jan 20
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

/2
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
/3
Read 4 tweets
Jan 19
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
Read 7 tweets
Jan 17
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.
2/ The request was by the “Core Group” that led UNHRC's 2025 resolution on Iran: UK, Germany, Iceland, Moldova & N. Macedonia.

On Monday they need 1/3 of UNHRC members to back the request, being 16 states.

I predict they'll get:
1. France
2. Iceland
3. Italy
4. Netherlands
5. Spain
6. Switzerland
7. Albania
8. Bulgaria
9. Czechia
10. Estonia
11. North Macedonia
12. Slovenia
13. Cyprus
14. Japan
15. Marshall Islands
16. Bolivia
3/ We ran a 21-day campaign to shame the UN Human Rights Council for ignoring the mass murder in Iran, and to pressure them to finally hold a special session:
x.com/HillelNeuer/st…
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Read 6 tweets
Jan 13
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.
Read 14 tweets
Dec 29, 2025
.@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.

Yet you & HRW gave her a prize: unwatch.org/tweets-for-ter…

As reported in NYT: archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blogs.… x.com/AgnesCallamard…Image
Amnesty: “Demand that Al Qassam Brigade stop attacks on civilians”

Mona Seif, sister of Alaa Abd El-Fattah: “Amnesty, you don't ask an occupied nation to stop their ‘Resistance’ to end violence!!! SHAME ON YOU”
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/

We sounded the alarm: unwatch.org/tweets-for-ter…
Read 4 tweets
Dec 28, 2025
Italian authorities arrested 9 people for using charities to fund Hamas, seizing assets worth 8 million euro.

Mohammad Hannoun, chief of the Palestinian Association who addressed an event with Francesca Albanese, was arrested. blogs.timesofisrael.com/italian-media-…

welt.de/politik/auslan…
2/ The prosecutor describes Mohammad Hannoun, president of the Palestinian Association in Italy, as the “leader of the Italian cell of Hamas.”

He allegedly ran a system for collecting funds for more than 20 years, ostensibly intended for humanitarian purposes.
3/ In reality, the money was used to finance Hamas or affiliated groups. He is believed to bear primary responsibility for transfers totaling more than 7 million euros, particularly after October 7, 2023, the day of the Hamas massacre that killed more than a thousand people.
Read 6 tweets

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