When Qatar, Pakistan, Congo, Afghanistan and Angola were elected yesterday to the UN’s highest human rights body, major news media turned to UN Watch for analysis and commentary.
Associated Press:
Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based rights group, singled out three of the winners — Congo, Qatar and Pakistan — for criticism, saying for the U.N. to elect them “as a world judge on human rights is like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief.”
Head of NGO on Congo’s Election to UN Human Rights Council
“For the UN to elect Qatar, Congo or Pakistan as a world judge on human rights is like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief.”
—Hillel Neuer, head of non-governmental organization UN Watch, after Congo was elected to the UN’s Human Rights Council.
Head of NGO on Congo's election to UN Human Rights Council pic.twitter.com/4L3NaBPPAA
— dpa news agency (@dpa_intl) October 16, 2017
“This is like making a pyromaniac the town fire chief,” said the head of the NGO UN Watch, Hillel Neuer.
Spanish news agency EFE:
“That the UN choose Qatar, Congo or Pakistan as world judges in human rights is like making a pyromaniac fire chief,” UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said in a statement.
