“Navi Pillay, by contrast, justified agenda item seven during a 2010 visit to Kuwait, and in a discussion with Italian lawmakers that same year.”
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022
“Navi Pillay, by contrast, justified agenda item seven during a 2010 visit to Kuwait, and in a discussion with Italian lawmakers that same year.”
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022
he was “disappointed at the council’s decision to single out only one specific regional item given the range and scope of allegations of human rights violations throughout the world.”
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022
“The skewed focus on Israel has been slammed by numerous Western governments – several of whom now boycott meetings held under agenda item seven – and also by former U.N. secretary general Ban ki-Moon, who said in 2007 that…”
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022
“Pillay has also defended the HRC’s “agenda item seven” – under which Israel is the only country, out of 193 U.N. member-states, to be targeted by a permanent agenda item during council sessions.”
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022
“Never in her U.N. tenure did Pillay use such inflammatory language regarding any other country—not even against serial abusers such as China, Russia, Iran, Syria or North Korea,” said Neuer, whose group has monitored the U.N. human rights apparatus in Geneva for 3 decades.”
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022
“Pillay condemned Israel’s action and referred to the Israeli government treating “international law with perpetual disdain.”
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022
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