China sits on the U.N. Human Rights Council. I hope you enjoy watching #Beijing2022
Biathlon, by exiled Chinese dissident artist Badiucao. 1/5
China sits on the U.N. Human Rights Council. I hope you enjoy watching #Beijing2022
Snowboarding, by exiled Chinese dissident artist Badiucao. 2/5
China sits on the U.N. Human Rights Council. I hope you enjoy watching #Beijing2022
Curling, by exiled Chinese dissident artist Badiucao. 3/5
China sits on the U.N. Human Rights Council. I hope you enjoy watching #Beijing2022
Hockey, by exiled Chinese dissident artist Badiucao. 4/5
China sits on the U.N. Human Rights Council. I hope you enjoy watching #Beijing2022
Figure Skating, by exiled Chinese dissident artist Badiucao. 5/5
The Beijing 2022 Collection depicts the regime’s oppression of the Tibetan people, the Uyghur genocide, the dismantling of democracy in Hong Kong, the regime’s omnipresent surveillance systems, and lack of transparency surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Each of the five works will be minted as 2022 editions, and collectors will have the opportunity to write their own message of opposition to China’s authoritarian regime onto the blockchain as part of the minting process, preserving it as a public decentralized record of protest.
This collection is a collective act of censorship resistance and fundraiser that will donate 10% of proceeds to the Art in Protest Residency, a collaboration between the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and the Human Rights Foundation. grayarea.org/press/chinese-…
.@Badiucao is an exiled Chinese dissident artist based in Australia whose work includes political cartoons, installations, street art, and performances. His art is renowned for denouncing human rights abuses and the suppression of free speech in China.
Badiucao’s Beijing 2022 collection on display at the artist’s solo exhibition in Brescia in November 2021, one of the artist’s few international shows which was not canceled in spite of pressure and demands from the Chinese Embassy in Rome.
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AP Exclusive: Humanitarians at Médecins Sans Frontières sexually exploit Sudanese underage girls in refugee camps, systematically targeting vulnerable victims of war. Internal report, buried for 11 months, suggests there was organized sexual trafficking. apnews.com/article/chad-s…
2/ Staff at Doctors Without Borders were engaged in “pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation , in some cases targeting underage girls or trading food or jobs for sex with refugees, according to a confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.”
3/ The internal report was from July 2025, yet only reported today by Associated Press. It found 59 allegations of abuse and said 18 staff members were dismissed and barred from future employment. “Findings only scratch the surface, as many women were hesitant to speak openly.”
2/ “Among Arabs and their supporters, it is sometimes said that Arabs cannot be anti-Semites since they themselves are Semites. This statement is meaningless. Anti-Semitism has never been concerned with anyone but Jews, and there is in any case no such thing as a Semite. Like the Aryan, he is a myth, and part of the same mythology.”
— Bernard Lewis nybooks.com/articles/1986/…
3/ “A common answer, given by or on behalf of Arabs, is that they cannot be anti-Semitic, since they themselves are Semites. The logic of this would seem to be that while an edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf published in Berlin or in Buenos Aires in German or Spanish is anti-Semitic, an Arabic version of the same text published in Cairo or Beirut cannot be anti-Semitic, because Arabic and Hebrew are cognate languages.” ms.z-library.sk/book/wRN3b8oYj…
2: Palestinian women take part in 5-kilometer Palestine Marathon along the coastal road near Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
2/ Mengele, under the alias Helmut Gregor, flew from his refuge in Argentina to Switzerland in 1956 to spend a skiing holiday in Engelberg with his future wife Martha, his widowed sister-in-law, and his son Rolf, the only child from his previous marriage to Irene Schönbein.
3/ Josef Mengele and his son Rolf during a skiing holiday in Engelberg, Switzerland, in 1956. @Weltwoche
Previous photo: Cover of the illustrated magazine Bunte from June 27, 1985.
.@MarkJCarney Prime Minister, why did you appoint a Governor-General who admitted herself that as U.N. human rights chief she gave a free pass to the worst tyrannies, saying she was “constrained by the reality of the organization's power centers, including China and Russia”?
2/ In fact, as U.N. high commissioner from 2004-2008, Louise Arbour turned a blind eye to billions of victims in 153 countries, including of regimes in Algeria, Bangladesh, Belarus, North Korea, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Vietnam & Yemen.
3/ UN Watch's Aug. 2008 report revealed that in her official statements over a two-year period, Arbour criticized China only once—and that she never said a single word on Russia. Instead, she posed for pictures taking flowers from Vladimir Putin, legitimizing his brutal regime.
DAY OF INFAMY: New video shows the moment when Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Austria and Switzerland joined the consensus decision to nominate Iran—and when they were repeatedly invited to object. They chose silence.
I regret that some democracies now suggest they never endorsed Iran for this UN committee that soon meets to address women's rights.
Ask your MP and foreign minister:
1. Yes or no, did our government join ECOSOC's April 8 consensus nomination of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
2. Yes or no, did the United States take the floor in that meeting to disassociate from the consensus nomination of Iran, stating that the regime threatens its neighbors, infringes on the Iranian people’s ability to exercise their basic human rights, and is thus unfit to serve?