Trending UN Watch tweets from this past week: UN Watch discovers that the UN Women’s Rights Commission appoints Iran to judge complaints of women’s rights violations; U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) applauds UN Watch’s work advocating for jailed Cuban activist Eduardo Cardet; and UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer exposes the UN Human Rights Council’s anti-Israeli bias as the body is silent on rockets fired from Gaza toward Tel Aviv.
UN Watch’s breaking news on Iran’s absurd appointment was shared by thousands around the world, including by opinion leaders such as Richard Grenell, US Ambassador to Germany; Jake Tapper, leading CNN correspondent; Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Swedish Member of European Parliament; Bas Belder, Dutch Member of European Parliament; Jonah Goldberg, Editor at the National Review; Antje Schippmann, BILD correspondent; Frida Ghitis, CNN And Washington Post Contributor; Janis Mackey Frayer, NBC News Correspondent; Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Rita Panahi, Iranian-Australian journalist; Camelia Entekhabitfard, Iranian journalist; Ben Shapiro, top conservative commentator; Robbie Gramer, reporter at Foreign Policy; and Inna Shevchenko, international women’s rights activist.
The appointment of Iran to the U.N. women’s rights committee which judges complaints alleging violations of women’s rights was gaveled by Ireland’s Geraldine Byrne Nason, Chair of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
