Trending UN Watch tweets from April: United Nations elects Iranian regime to top women’s rights body; at least four democracies vote for Iran; Iranian morality police invoke Western women’s compliance to justify hijab laws; Saudi Arabia sits on UN Women executive board; UN court allows giving dissidents’ names to China.
No joke: UN elects Iranian regime to top women's rights body.
Electing Ayatollah Khamenei's Islamic Republic of Iran to protect women’s rights is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief.https://t.co/ApcXikZQH7
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 21, 2021
Iran’s fundamentalist mullahs force women to cover their hair, with many arrested and attacked daily under the misogynistic hijab law. They require a woman to receive permission from her father to get married.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 21, 2021
Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime imprisons courageous women’s rights activists, such as Nasrin Sotudeh, Mojgan Keshavarz, Yasaman Aryani, and Monireh Arabshahi, for the crime of peacefully demanding their human dignity.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 21, 2021
Why, then, did the UN name one of the world’s worst oppressors of women as a world judge and guardian of gender equality and the empowerment of women?
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 21, 2021
Today the UN sent a message that women’s rights can be sold out for backroom political deals, and it let down millions of female victims in Iran and worldwide who look to the world body for protection.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 21, 2021
Caught on video: that moment yesterday when the United Nations announces the election of the misogynistic mullahs' regime to its highest women's rights body. https://t.co/cHJEUFs4mr pic.twitter.com/jTZVM05AZc
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 21, 2021
At Least Four Western Democracies Vote For Iran
SHAME: At least 4 of these democracies voted #Iran onto the UN Commission on Women's Rights.
🇦🇺 Australia
🇦🇹 Austria
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇨🇦 Canada
🇫🇮 Finland
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇴 Norway
🇨🇭 Swiss
🇬🇧 UK
🇺🇸 US
🇵🇹 Portugal https://t.co/xy0bMsH2ay— UN Watch (@UNWatch) April 22, 2021
A regime that treats women as half a human being was elected to the highest women's rights body of the United Nations.
At least 4 EU & Western democracies voted for Iran.
Today, I call on representatives of 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇸🇮🇹🇩🇰🇳🇱🇸🇪🇫🇮🇮🇪🇪🇺&🇧🇪 to condemn this outrage. Why are they silent? https://t.co/OBaWj63QMy pic.twitter.com/HX2LFS00La
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 27, 2021
What kind of power does the Islamic Republic of Iran exert over our governments that not a single democracy from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea has dared to utter a word of condemnation over the misogynistic regime's election to the UN's top women's rights body?
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 27, 2021
Iranian Morality Police Invoke Western Women’s Compliance to Justify Hijab Laws
“Female European parliamentarians come here and obey hijab laws. Are you better than them?“
Thanks for nothing, @AnnLinde @SweMFA. https://t.co/ahaMLYVViN pic.twitter.com/VnFMy4Z2vC
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 25, 2021
Saudi Arabia Sits on UN Women Executive Board
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia sits on your Executive Board https://t.co/rDoHEqnzYR
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 11, 2021
UN Court Approves Giving Dissidents’ Names to China
No joke: UN court today rules it was OK for UN human rights office to hand names of dissidents over to China, because it was about “building and maintaining a relationship with member states.“ The UN secretly told Beijing which Chinese rights activists were to attend UN meetings. https://t.co/VCifKwpftL
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 6, 2021
Liking, retweeting, following: UN Watch tweets were liked and shared by thousands around the world, including by opinion leaders and celebrities such as:
- Venezuelan diplomat & former UN Security Council President Diego Arria, UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran Ahmed Shaheed
- Head of Global Magnitsky Justice campaign Bill Browder, Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and activist Lyubov Sobol, Iranian women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad, Cuban human rights activist Rosa María Payá, Turkish fashion designer & activist Barbaros Sansal, former prisoner of Iran & activist Kylie Moore-Gilbert, human rights defender & Uighur attorney Rayhan Asat, Dutch-Kurdish singer & activist Dashni Morad, Pakistani-American activist Farahnaz Ispahani, Chinese cyber-dissident Wu Lebao, Chinese political cartoonist and activist Badiucao, Canadian human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed, Saudi dissidents Raif Badawi & Ensaf Haidar, social & environmental activist Ulrich Janse van Vuuren
- Chair of the British parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Tom Tugendhat, UK MP Alicia Kearns, House of Lords member Lady Karren Brady
- Canadian senators Linda Frum & Luc Berthold, Canadian MPs Pierre Paul-Hus, Garnett Genuis, Bob Saroya & Marc Dalton, former Canadian foreign minister John Baird, former Canadian ambassador to Israel Vivian Bercovici, former British Columbia attorney general & justice minister Suzanne Anton
- European Parliament member Peter van Dalen, Swedish MPs Hanif Bali & Fredrik Malm
- Israeli ambassador to the U.S. & UN Gilad Erdan, Israeli ambassador to Belgium Emmanuele Nachshon, Israeli ambassador to Chile Marina Rosenberg, former Israeli ambassador to India Daniel Carmon, former Israeli ambassador to South Africa Arthur Lenk
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies president Clifford May, CEO Mark Dubowitz & senior vice president of research Jonathan Schanzer, Stockholm Free World Forum chairman Gunnar Hokmark, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies executive director Kyle Matthews, Hudson Institute South & Central Asia Director and former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs, AJC Transatlantic Institute director Daniel Schwammenthal, Religious Freedom Institute senior fellow Farahnaz Ispahani, Human Rights Foundation chief strategy officer Alex Gladstein, UK Muslims Against Anti-Semitism chairman Ghanem Nuseibeh, Amnesty International Venezuela director Marcos Gomez
- Israeli-American computer scientist Judea Pearl, Iranian-American author Dr. Nina Ansari
- U.S. actor Joshua Malina, Irish actor Rory Cowan
- British Olympic swimming medalist Sharron Davies, Brazilian Olympic volleyball medalist Ana Paula Henkel, Canadian football player Jeff Hecht
Many journalists also liked or shared UN Watch’s tweets, including:
- CNN anchor Jake Tapper, Washington Post columnist & CNN contributor Frida Ghitis, CNN En Espanol anchor & Miami Herald columnist Andrés Oppenheimer, ABC host Meghan McCain, political commentator Ben Shapiro, Voice of America correspondents Michael Lipin & Behrooz Samadbeygi, Wall St Journal contributor Gabriella Gershenson, Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer, Washington Examiner commentator Tiana Lowe, National Review senior writer David Harsanyi, The Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg, The Atlantic contributing editor Norman Ornstein, CNBC journalist Lora Kolodny
- BBC Persian journalist Reihaneh Mazaheri, Guardian diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour, Financial Times journalist Hudson Lockett
- Toronto Sun columnists Lorrie Goldstein, Brian Lilley & Tarek Fatah, National Post journalist Terry Glavin, Global News broadcaster Alex Pierson
- Welt am Sonntag managing editor Antje Schippmann & editor-in-chief Johannes Boie, ARD German TV correspondent Richard C. Schneider
- Sky News Australia hosts Rita Panahi & Sharri Markson, The Age foreign editor Chris Zappone, Asia Times Middle East editor Alison Meuse
- Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard, Jerusalem Post journalists Lahav Harkov & Tovah Lazaroff, Times of Israel journalist Haviv Rettig Gur
- Iranian journalists Nazenin Ansari, Nariman Gharib & Saman Arbabi, British-Iranian journalist Ramita Navai
