Trending UN Watch tweets from July: UN Watch presses China on its repression of Uighur Muslims; U.N. hypocrisy on condemning Israel; Turkey turns UNESCO-listed Hagia Sophia into a mosque; China picks the U.N.’s monitor on free speech; China, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia announce candidacies for the U.N. Human Rights Council; and the WHO names Helen Clark—who praises the WHO and China—to lead its”impartial, independent” Coronavirus inquiry. For some of the influencers who shared our tweets in July, see highlights at the bottom.
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UN Watch presses China on its repression of Uighur Muslims, calls out U.N. silence
History will record that on the day China smashed Hong Kong's autonomy, the U.N.'s top human rights body not only refused to say a word, but broke its own rules to invite Beijing's puppet ruler of Hong Kong Carrie Lam to address the council & spin the takeover—without any debate. pic.twitter.com/Uc9Y7WBNdj
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 1, 2020
If your locking up of 1 million Muslims in re-education camps is "pure fabrication," why do you block the world from visiting & seeing what's going on? https://t.co/B6CZf2RirP
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 3, 2020
China is destroying its Uighur Muslims, but at the UNHRC, the Islamic group of states are silent—to protect their business ties. Our human rights group, UN Watch, dared to speak out for these victims last year. China came after us—and tried to shut us down. pic.twitter.com/oD6rg0Pcew
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 10, 2020
China puts 1 million Muslim Uighurs in camps.
🇹🇷 Why is Turkey's President Erodgan—who claims to care for this Turkic-speaking people—silent?
🇸🇦 Why are the 56 Muslim states—who claim to care about Muslims—silent?
🇺🇳 Why is the United Nations—and its Human Rights Council—silent? https://t.co/ogvHzAYO58— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 18, 2020
✅ GOOD: France Foreign Minister calls China's treatment of Uighur Muslims "indefensible" and calls on U.N. rights chief @mbachelet to send mission of independent experts to probe abuses in Xinjiang. https://t.co/ua1w0SCgaJ
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) July 30, 2020
You herded 1 million Muslim Uighurs into camps https://t.co/cpYLznHIM5
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 30, 2020
#EidAdhaMubarak to the 1 million Muslim Uighurs locked up by 🇨🇳 China in camps.
When we spoke out for them at the U.N. Human Rights Council, China's reps banged on the table trying to shut me down.
But why hasn't even 1 Muslim state at the U.N. done a thing for the Uighurs? pic.twitter.com/HVkVwMaFO6
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 30, 2020
U.N. turns blind eye to Turkey occupying Arab territories
Turkey now occupies more Arab territories — Syria, Iraq, Libya — than any other country in the world. Yet when the U.N.'s human rights council next week will hold its regular debate on "Occupied Arab Territories," Turkey's name won't be mentioned even once. Isn't that odd? https://t.co/SgRVPgG8BC
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 5, 2020
U.N. singles out Israel:
UNHRC Condemnations, 2006-2019:
🇰🇵 North Korea 12
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 0
🇲🇲 Myanmar 25
🇻🇪 Venezuela 1
🇵🇰 Pakistan 0
🇸🇴 Somalia 0
🇧🇾 Belarus 9
🇪🇷 Eritrea 9
🇮🇱 Israel 85
🇹🇷 Turkey 0
🇸🇩 Sudan 0
🇸🇾 Syria 32
🇨🇳 China 0
🇸🇦 Saudi 0
🇶🇦 Qatar 0
🇮🇷 Iran 9
🇮🇶 Iraq 0Source: https://t.co/O1gUSYcHml
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 16, 2020
🇮🇷 Iran is condemning peaceful protesters to death.
🇨🇳 China took over Kong Kong & crushed civil liberties.
🇷🇺 Russia renewed the dictator's rule for another 16 years.
🇹🇷 Turkey turned the historic Hagia Sophia into a mosque.🇺🇳 This week's UNHRC has only 1 nation on its agenda. pic.twitter.com/vjjRMiRUIL
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 12, 2020
Turkey turns UNESCO-listed Hagia Sophia into a Mosque
.@RTErdogan If you're a hero for Muslim rights, why are you silent as 1 million Uighur Muslims — Turkic-speaking people with whom your nation shares a common heritage — are herded into camps by Beijing? Is your throat choked with China's billions in loans?https://t.co/3kSwKcOTyL
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 12, 2020
China selects U.N. monitor on free speech:
BREAKING: 🇨🇳 China was Chair of the U.N. Human Rights Council vetting process that picked Amnesty International's former chief Irene Khan to be the next world monitor on free speech—to be ratified this afternoon—and it turns out she's weirdly close with China's government. pic.twitter.com/zquD92e0bo
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 17, 2020
Tyrannies running for U.N. Human Rights Council:
It's official: Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is running for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
This sounds like a joke. It's not.
Read the official letter. This is real — and Putin is expected to win. pic.twitter.com/AAdIuaCNuE
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 19, 2020
No joke: Xi Xinping's China is running for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
First they joined the UNHRC panel that selects world human rights monitors; then China picked regime admirer Irene Khan as the UN free speech expert; now they're about to become a Council member. pic.twitter.com/4fyatYr0G3
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 21, 2020
BREAKING: 🇵🇰 Pakistan is running for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Credentials:
✅ Persecutes Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Shias, Ahmadis
✅ Hosts terror groups Afghan Taliban, HQN, LeT, JeM
✅ Backs Chinese genocide of Muslim Uighurs
✅ Abducts independent journalists pic.twitter.com/j2PDuLdeaC— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 22, 2020
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oppose China running for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council. pic.twitter.com/TGu95r83or— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 23, 2020
WHO names biased chair to lead Coronavirus inquiry
.@HelenClarkNZ, chair of the @WHO's new inquiry into the coronavirus outbreak, just blocked us—for reporting her close ties to China, WHO chief @DrTedros, and her apologetics for WHO wrongdoing.
We are mandated to hold UN officials like her to account.
Where's the transparency? pic.twitter.com/eioNYzKS3U
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) July 12, 2020
Shame on @HelenClarkNZ, for blocking the only watchdog group that would hold her to account. As former Prime Minister of New Zealand, we expected more. It really does seem she was named to this inquiry to ensure both China & the WHO get a free pass.https://t.co/iDDF0Ujo7g #nzpol
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 12, 2020
Just listen to Clark's interview with @mikeyardleynz where she:
• Refuses to answer if she'll investigate China's influence over WHO
• Denies WHO opposed travel ban (False: https://t.co/ldK6jIxGlQ)
• Determines already now that WHO has great procedure for investigating itself pic.twitter.com/7nRMNGNkRo— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 12, 2020
Liking, retweeting, following: Influencers who shared or endorsed our tweets in July include Swedish MP Hanif Bali; MEPs Peter van Dalen & Charlie Weimers; former Pakistan ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani; Germany’s TV news program Tagesthemen; Miguel Pizarro, the U.N. rep of the Venezuelan opposition; British television presenter Rachel Riley; Australian MP Dave Sharma; U.S. Ambassador Robert Wood, representative to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament; Russian dissident and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov; Chinese human rights lawyer Teng Biao. New followers include Bob Rae, Canada’s new ambassador to the U.N.; L.A. Times China correspondent Alice Su; and Washington Post foreign affairs correspondent Emily Rauhala.
