December 14, 2022 — Victory! The Islamic regime of Iran was today expelled from the UN Women’s Rights Commission, following a relentless campaign led by UN Watch, the independent non-governmental human rights organization that fights dictatorships at the world body.
By an overwhelming vote of 29 to 8, the Islamic Republic of Iran became the first government in the history of the United Nations to be removed from the Commission on the State of Women. The action was taken by the commission’s parent body, the UN Economic and Social Council.
“This is a regime that beats, blinds, arrests, tortures, rapes and kills women protesters, and they never should have been there in the first place,” said Hillel Neuer, director of UN Watch.
“Today, we finally see some justice. The UN’s unprecedented expulsion of Ayatollah Khamenei’s murderous and misogynistic regime sends the right message. But let us be clear: this is only the beginning. The free world must now move forward to sanction the killers, expel their diplomats, and do everything possible to remove the Ayatollah’s brutal and barbaric regime from Iran.”
UN Watch was the first in the world to reveal and protest the obscene election of Iran’s regime to the UN’s top women’s right body in April 2021. The exposé sparked parliamentary protests and headlines worldwide.
As documented below, over the past two years, UN Watch waged a relentless campaign to expel the Iranian regime — including a press conference featuring top Iran activists, speeches to the United Nations, a special web page, non-stop social media and videos.
When the Mahsa Amini protests began, UN Watch submitted a draft resolution for the UN to expel the regime. This was followed by an online petition and “Expel Iran” publicity campaigns22 including the take-over of the tram that runs next to the UN Human Rights Council. Finally, today, the regime was expelled.
VICTORY! ⚡️
By a vote of 29 to 8, with 16 abstentions, the Islamic Republic of Iran was just expelled from the U.N. Women's Rights Commission. First time in United Nations history that any member state was removed from this body. Bravo to all who helped to make this happen! 🙏 pic.twitter.com/LDMBKTPWMO— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 14, 2022
UN Watch’s Campaign to Expel Iran: Part 1 (April-May 2021)
UN Watch’s exclusive report in April 2021 exposing Iran’s election to the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women sparked a global firestorm. Lawmakers demanded answers and challenged their foreign ministries in the Dutch parliament, the Canadian parliament, the British parliament and the Norwegian parliament, along with questions asked in France, Germany and Switzerland.
Major media coverage worldwide of UN Watch’s report included stories in France’s Le Figaro, Belgium’s La Libre, the Netherlands’s Telegraaf, Voice of America, the UK’s Daily Mail, Germany’s Bild, Brazil’s Gazeta do Povo, Scotland’s The National, Sky News Australia, Norway’s Netavissen, Sweden’s Göteborgs-Posten, and Venezuela’s El Nacional.
Many other journalists, including correspondents and editors from CNN and BBC, shared UN Watch’s report on social media. See below.
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
I know some of you don't believe me that the U.N. actually elected the Islamic Republic of Iran yesterday to its top women's rights body, so here's the video: https://t.co/43ckGoMrcR pic.twitter.com/zkuzME9R6N
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 21, 2021
Le Figaro (France): Iran elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women
“Iran’s persecution of women is blatant and systematic, both in law and in practice. The UN Secretary-General himself has pointed out the ‘persistent discrimination against women and girls’ in Iran, ”also protested Hillel Neuer, lawyer, human rights activist and head of “UN Watch”, a non-governmental organization based in Geneva. UN Watch has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. In an article published on its site, UN Watch indicates “that at least four of the fifteen members of the group of ‘western democracies’ voted to integrate Iran”. In this group are notably present France, the United States, Germany, Canada and the United Kingdom.
La Libre (Belgium): The election of Iran in the UN body supposed to defend women creates an outcry
The NGO UN Watch called on the United States and member states of the European Union to denounce Iran’s election to a four-year term as a member of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. It is the main intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the emancipation of women in the world. This election on Tuesday by the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) sparked outrage in the community of human rights activists.
Telegraaf (Netherlands): Woede om toetreding Iran tot VN-commissie vrouwenrechten: ‘Alsof je een pyromaan uitroept tot brandweerman’; BuZa zwijgt over stemgedrag Nederland
Ook VN-waakhond UN Watch is boos en roept Europese lidstaten en de Verenigde Staten op de verkiezing van Iran te veroordelen. „Alsof je een pyromaan uitroept tot brandweerman”, sneerde UN Watch-voorman Hillel Neuer. „Absurd en moreel verwerpelijk.” Hij noemt de Iraanse toetreding ‘een zwarte dag voor vrouwenrechten en mensenrechten in het algemeen’.
Voice of America (United States): Iran’s Election to UN Women’s Body Draws Outrage From Rights Activists, US Silence
Hillel Neuer, the executive director of the Geneva-based group UN Watch, said in an online statement that while ECOSOC typically rubber-stamps regional groups’ nominations for the Commission on the Status of Women, the US exercised its authority as an ECOSOC member to call for a vote. “I commend the Biden administration for forcing the vote, but they should also speak out to condemn the obscene election of [Iranian Supreme Leader] Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime to a women’s rights body,” Neuer said.
Daily Mail (United Kingdom): Outrage as Iran is selected to sit on UN women’s rights panel despite laws banning female sports, making the hijab compulsory and forcing married women to get their husband’s permission to leave the country
Hillel Neuer, director of the Geneva-based group UN Watch, tweeted: “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. This is a black day for women’s rights, and for all human rights. Iran’s persecution of women is gross and systematic, both in law and in practice. 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. “
Bild (Germany): Gremium für Frauenrechte nimmt Iran auf
Laut der UN-kritischen Nichtregierungsorporation UN Watch müssen mindestens vier der folgenden 15 westlichen Demokratien für den Iran votiert haben: Australien, Österreich, Bulgarien, Kanada, Finnland, Frankreich, Lettland, Deutschland, Luxemburg, die Niederlande, Norwegen, die Schweannien, die , die Vereinigten Staaten und Portugal. Laut UN -Watch-Chef Hillel Neuer ist die Wahl des Iran in die Frauenrechtskommission so, als würde man den Brandstifter zum Feuerwehrchef machen. Er vermutet, dass politische Hinterzimmer-Deals zu dieser Irrsinnswahl geführt haben.
Gazeto do Povo (Brazil): UN escolhe Irã como membro comissão que cuida dos direitos das mulheres
O Conselho Econômico e Social das Nações Unidas escolheu nesta quinta-feira (22) a República do Irã como membro da Comissão das Nações Unidas sobre as Situação das Mulheres – que se intitula o “principal órgão intergovernamental global dedicado daigualoçade intergovernamental global dedicado êigualoçade intergovernamental global dedicado êigualoçade promo e ao empoderamento das mulheres ”.
The National (Scotland): Outrage as Iran gets voted in to UN women’s right committee
Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva based human rights group, said: “Electing the Islamic Republic of Iran to protect women’s rights is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief. It’s absurd – and morally reprehensible. This is a black day for women’s rights, and for all human rights. ”
Sky News (Australia): ‘The UN is a hopelessly corrupt clown operation’
Iran has earned a four-year term on the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women, which is meant to be the principal inter-governmental body that is supposed to be advancing the cause of women. The ballot was secret, so we don’t know precisely who voted to elect Iran into this body. But UN Watch has determined that at least 4 of the 15 EU and Western Group democracies voted for Iran.
Valeurs Actuelles (France): The UN elects Iran to its commission for… women’s rights
Iran was most recently elected to a four-year term on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which according to the non-governmental organization UN Watch is “the world’s leading intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women ”.
Netavissen (Norway): Iran utnevnt til FNs utvalg for kvinners rettigheter: – Helt absurd
Direktør for UN Watch, in interestorganisasjon som følger FN, Hillel Neuer sier til Jerusalem Post at det å utpeke Iran til å beskytte kvinners rettigheter and som å sette in pyromaniac til å være brannsjef. Det er uklarhet om hvordan Norge stemte i saken. Ifølge organisasjonen UN Watch skal minst fire av 15 vestlige land ha som stemte for Irans kandidatur. Avstemningen var hemmelig.
Göteborgs-Posten (Sweden): Kritik word Irans dishes i rådet för kvinnors rättigheter
Kommissionen agerar under FN: s ekonomiska och sociala råd, som denna vecka röstade fram Iran som medlem i kvinnokommissionen under de k command fyra åren, något som UN Watch (in organization vars syfte är att granska FN) report om. 43 av 54 länder röstade för att Iran skulle få en dishes i kvinnokommisionen, enligt UN Watch. Vilka länder som röstade för respektive emot är hemligt.
El Nacional (Venezuela): The UN eligió a Irán para presidir la Comisión de Derechos de la Mujer
The NGO UN Watch, con sede en Ginebra, cuya misión declarada es supervisar el desempeño de las Naciones Unidas según el criterio de su propia carta, rechazó la elección de la República Islámica de Irán debido a las polémicas contra leyes que tiene este país en la mujer. “Felicito a la administración Biden por forzar la votación, pero también deberían hablar para condenar la obscena elección del regimen del ayatolá Jamenei a un organismo de derechos de la mujer”, dijo Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. “Es absurdo y morally reprobable. Este es un día negro para los derechos de las mujeres y para todos los derechos humanos ”, agregó.
Quoted in @News_NTD: "Hillel Neuer, the Executive Director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based human rights organization, said 'Electing Iran to protect women's rights is like making an arsonist into the town fire chief. It's absurd and morally reprehensible.'" https://t.co/Tr5YQjp0Vw
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) April 29, 2021
PARLIAMENTARIANS & MEDIA DEMAND ANSWERS: With the revelation that at least four EU and Western Group democracies voted for Iran, questions were asked in those states.
- The Netherlands: A foreign ministry spokesperson, questioned by Reformatorisch Dagblad, said: “It was a confidential vote, so, unfortunately, I cannot comment on it.” This prompted Dutch parliamentarians to demand answers from foreign minister Stef Blok. Christian Union MP Gert-Jan Segers asked Blok whether he agreed that “it is inappropriate and unjust that Iran is now sitting on a committee that aims to protect women’s rights.” SGP leader Kees van der Staaij called it “the world upside down that an unfree regime like Iran is supported in the UN and Israel is always put in the suspect bank.” A party employee said that the SGP was going to ask for clarification. The JA21 party also wanted clarification. “JA21 will put @ministerBlok on the spot,” tweeted MP Derk Jan Eppink. “Too nice for Iran and too hard for Israel, the only democracy in the region.”
- UK: The issue was raised in Parliament by MPs Nus Ghani and Laura Farris, who called on the government to object to Iran’s election. “It beggars belief that Iran sits on the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women,” tweeted Farris. MP Tom Tugendhat, Chair of the British parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, retweeted UN Watch commenting: “Iran’s dictators treat women with cruelty and beat those who don’t obey their dress code, let alone those who speak out — they’re murdered. And others, like Nazanin, are held hostage. They have no place there.”
I joined MPs from across the House in condemning the further imprisonment of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe after another sham trial.
It beggars belief that Iran sits on the UNs Commission on the Status of Women and asked the Minister what steps the U.K. can take to object pic.twitter.com/WzKfCu2KN5
— Laura Farris MP (@Laura__Farris) April 27, 2021
At @FCDOGovUK I raised the inhumane detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe by the Iranian Regime.
And how UN justified electing Iran to lead in Women’s Rights- if Iran wants credibility they need stop holding dual nationals hostage. pic.twitter.com/wJXW6a0imP— Nus Ghani MP (@Nus_Ghani) April 27, 2021
- Canada: Foreign minister Marc Garneau twice refused to say a word of condemnation of Iran’s election when asked to do so by Conservative MP Garnett Genuis. Canada’s opposition published a declaration denouncing Iran’s election, stating: “Canada must defend the principle of liberty, women’s equality and human rights,” and asked whether Canada had voted for or against Iran’s election, a question echoed by MP Luc Berthold. Canadian senator Leo Housakos retweeted UN Watch, asking: “Was our “feminist” government amongst those who voted in favor of this ridiculousness?” Senator Pamela Wallin cited UN Watch and expressed her shock, while Senator Linda Frum demanded to know how Canada voted. Canada’s ambassador to the UN Bob Rae eventually confirmed that his country had not voted for Iran.
Iran was recently elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women and the Liberals have nothing to say about it…
This makes a mockery of this UN body and is an insult to the courageous Iranian women who have stood up to the regime. #cdnpoli #Iran pic.twitter.com/FTpHrHrdZR
— Garnett Genuis (@GarnettGenuis) April 27, 2021
DÉCLARATION: Le @PCC_HQ dénonce l’ajout de l’Iran à la Commission de la condition de la femme de @ONU_fr. Le Canada doit défendre le principe de la liberté, de l’égalité des femmes et des droits de la personne . Est-ce que le Canada a voté pour ou contre cet ajout ? #polcan pic.twitter.com/pU7xY3qOwT
— Pierre Paul-Hus (@PierrePaulHus) April 26, 2021
How did Canada vote @MarcGarneau? Canadians deserve to know. https://t.co/PT8JacSBNP
— Linda Frum (@LindaFrum) April 27, 2021
- Norway: According to Nettavisen, the Norwegian foreign ministry refused to make its vote public. The issue was raised in parliament. Norwegian Progress Party MP Christian Tybring-Gjedde responded: “It’s complete madness! It also shows that the UN is a corrupt undemocratic organization where votes are bought and sold.”
Norway's foreign minister refuses to say if they voted for #Iran to join @UN_Women.
"Norway does not state its vote—in line with rules of procedure in the UN."
But, she adds, "It is undoubtedly the case that Iran has significant challenges when it comes to human rights.“ https://t.co/BrYdS8K0M0 pic.twitter.com/g87LtNs9vu
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 30, 2021
- Germany: The newspaper Bild asked its foreign ministry whether Germany was one of the countries that voted for Iran. The question remained unanswered.
- France: Le Point foreign editor Luc de Barochez tweeted that the UN was “making a fool of itself” and asked the French government which way it voted.
- Switzerland: Federal parliamentarian Marianne Binder-Keller referred to Iran as “misogynist” and asked whether Switzerland had voted for, against, or had abstained in the vote.
- USA: Several lawmakers condemned Iran’s election. Senator Marsha Blackburn called it “an insult to nations like the US, who have worked to support women across the globe.” When Matt Lee of the Associated Press asked a U.S. State Department spokesperson how the U.S. voted and to condemn Iran’s election, the spokesperson repeatedly balked at doing so. (See here for the transcript of the full exchange.)
HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS AND ACTIVISTS: UN Watch’s revelation that Iran had been elected to the UN’s women’s committee prompted a fierce backlash from Iranian activists, including the Association of Iranian Women in France, which said in a statement released with their counterparts in Italy and Sweden: “We consider the election of the extremely misogynistic regime of Iran as an insult to all Iranian women, the main victims of this regime during the last four decades.”
“A regime that does not allow women to make decisions for their own bodies has been elected to a body to monitor the condition of women around the world,” Iranian women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad said in testimony before the Swedish parliament. Alinejad also appeared on many media outlets.
Here is my interview with @marthamaccallum from @FoxNews.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been elected to the UN's top commission on status of women.
Which democratic countries have elected this regime of gender apartheid to this top position? Ask your governments. pic.twitter.com/vzaSZt0OHR
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) April 27, 2021
UN Watch 2020 Gala Award recipient Shaparak Shajarizadeh also slammed the election result. “We don’t know which countries voted for Iran, but we’re gonna hold them accountable for this vote,” she pledged.
Speaking on French media, French-Persian novelist Chahdortt Djavann called on “all women to file a complaint against the UN.”
UN Watch’s material was also shared on social media by Foundation for Defense of Democracies CEO Mark Dubowitz, Stockholm Free World Forum chairman Gunnar Hokmark, the Human Rights Foundation, former prisoner of Iran & activist Kylie Moore-Gilbert, UK Muslims Against Anti-Semitism chairman Ghanem Nuseibeh, and human rights activists Dashni Morad and Farahnaz Ispahani.
INFLUENCERS: Major influencers who shared UN Watch’s outrage at Iran’s election on social media included former UN Security Council president Diego Arria, BBC Persian journalist Reihaneh Mazaheri, CNN & Washington Post columnist Frida Ghitis, Nikki Haley’s Stand For America, UK House of Lords member Lady Karren Brady, Iranian journalists Nazenin Ansari & Saman Arbabi, Iranian-American author Dr. Nina Ansari, British Olympic swimming medalist Sharron Davies, Brazilian Olympic volleyball medalist Ana Paula Henkel and Canadian football player Jeff Hecht.
MAY 2021: UN WATCH PRESS CONFERENCE
On May 3, 2021, UN Watch organized a online press conference featuring Iranian human rights activists who condemned the regime’s election to the UN women’s rights commission. The event was co-sponsored by the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. (Click here to watch and read full remarks.)
UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, who moderated the panel, said “Iran has absolutely no place on the world’s leading women’s rights commission. To suggest, as many Western diplomats have, that electing the Islamic Republic will allow the regime to learn and improve its rights record is a farce.”
“I am disappointed that the U.S. refused to clearly condemn Iran’s election, as they had done on a similar occasion in 2014, and also that they failed to take leadership and find a candidate to defeat Iran, as they had done in a similar contest in 2010, when the US recruited East Timor to successfully block Tehran from gaining a seat on a related UN women’s rights board. For some reasons, the US is now granting Iran impunity.”
Iranian-born pro-democracy activist Mariam Memarsadeghi called out Western democracies’ “active appeasement of the regime.” Kaveh Shahrooz, a human rights lawyer and policy expert, described total “shock and revulsion” at Iran’s election to “precisely the institution that the women of Iran should be able to look to defend them against the misogyny and gender apartheid to which they have been subjected for four decades.” He said Iran’s “evil” treatment of women “does not belong in the 21st century.”
Shaparak Shajarizadeh, an Iranian activist imprisoned for removing her headscarf in defiance of the regime’s compulsory hijab law, and named one of BBC’s top most inspiring women around the world, called Iran’s election to the commission “an insult not only to women in Iran but all women.” She testified on how the Islamic Republic beat, brutalized, and interrogated her in the notorious Evin prison for the crime of removing her hijab in public. “It was the most frightening experience of my life,” said Shajarizadeh.
“The election of Iran is an outrage,” said international rights lawyer and advocate for political prisoners Irwin Cotler, Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and former Canadian Minister of Justice and MP. “Refusing to condemn it is a betrayal of the women of Iran, and of the mandate of the UN Commission with respect to the protection of gender equality, and a betrayal of the values that democracies are sworn to uphold and sustain.”
UN Watch’s Campaign to Expel Iran: Part 2 (June 2021 – Sept. 2022)
Over the next year, UN Watch continued to campaign against the regime’s membership on the UN’s top women’s rights body, and raise awareness of the mullahs’ targeting of Iranian women’s rights activists.
Meet Ebrahim Raisi.
He was part of the Iranian regime's notorious death commission in 1988 that ordered the mass execution of 5,000 political prisoners.
He should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
Instead, he was just named the next President of Iran. pic.twitter.com/KDHr67yNLG
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 19, 2021
This is Masih Alinejad.
Exiled from Iran, she created a mass movement for women to defy the Ayatollahs’ misogynistic forced hijab.
Masih is one of the most courageous and compelling human rights activists I have ever met.
Iranian agents plotted to kidnap her from NY to Iran. https://t.co/hf1SRVWfPe pic.twitter.com/C1PJu279pV
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 13, 2021
This woman who loves to sing and dance created a mass movement for women in Iran to be free of subjugation and so she became Public Enemy No. 1 for the Ayatollah Khamenei regime and its Iran Lobby supporters in the US.
The frightened Mullahs plotted to kidnap her from Brooklyn. https://t.co/GhtHTpGmli
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 15, 2021
The Islamic Republic of Iran was recently elected to the U.N. women's rights commission. You know the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is next. https://t.co/qxZC4eghwL
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 17, 2021
You know it's only a matter of time before the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is elected to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
EU diplomats justified electing Iran's regime to the women's rights commission, and China, Russia and Cuba to the UNHRC, because "that's how they'll learn." pic.twitter.com/SYhoMh1uxi
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 15, 2021
“The moment she becomes your hostage, you can take her home as your slave.”
Broadcast on Iranian regime state TV.
The same Iranian regime that was recently elected to the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission. https://t.co/Z5P3s7f9rU
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) September 2, 2021
On March 25, 2022, the Islamic Republic of Iran will officially join the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Have a nice day. pic.twitter.com/j00OMAKuqn
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 19, 2021
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hate 🇮🇷 Iran joining the U.N. Women Rights Commission on March 25, 2022.— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 16, 2022
3 out of 4 of these murderous dictators — Putin, Xi, Maduro — sit on the 2022 U.N. Human Rights Council which opens Monday.
As for the 4th, Iran’s Ayatollah Raisi, he joins the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission on March 25th.
I am not making this up. https://t.co/Csip4UqXLZ
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 27, 2022
Next Friday, the Islamic Republic of Iran is joining the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission. That’s the whole tweet.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 14, 2022
When the Islamic Republic of Iran told lies at the Human Rights Council about its record on women's rights, I took the floor to recite the names of jailed Iranian women's rights activists and to ask the United Nations why they put the regime on the U.N. Women's Rights Commission. pic.twitter.com/2UhckGcB0R
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 30, 2022
Four months ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran joined the United Nations Women's Rights Commission. Our democracies were all silent about this moral obscenity because they were trying to negotiate an Iran nuclear deal with the murderous mullahs.https://t.co/EzKREjfLh1
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 20, 2022
• Twitter allows this Ayatollah to still tweet incitement to hatred and murder
• Ayatollah's regime was elected to U.N. Women's Rights Commission
• Our Western governments continue to push a nuclear deal with this regime that will hand the murderers billions of dollars pic.twitter.com/19XKCQzxcZ
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 13, 2022
The Islamic Republic of Iran sits on the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission. That’s the whole tweet. pic.twitter.com/5oIa8i7swD
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 30, 2022
For God’s sake, the Islamic Republic of Iran cannot remain on the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 30, 2022
UN Watch’s Campaign to Expel Iran: Part 3 (September – December 2022)
Yesterday: Mahsan Amini dead after arrest for improper hijab by Iran regime morality police, beaten while inside police van (per BBC, citing eyewitnesses) https://t.co/lZHazP1VEP
Wednesday: President of Iran regime, member of UN Women’s Rights Commission, to address UNGA opening pic.twitter.com/50d4LVpN93
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) September 17, 2022
Every single Iranian girl in this video who pulled off her compulsory headscarf in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and shouted “Get lost, Basiji” deserves to be on the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission a billion times more than current member Ayatollah Khamenei. https://t.co/KkMWBEx9SW
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 5, 2022
For God's sake, the Iran regime cannot remain on the U.N. Women's Rights Commission.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 14, 2022
BREAKING: Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is calling for President Biden to demand the removal of Iran from the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission in the wake of the death of Mahsa Amini. https://t.co/K6J6D1wouA
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 15, 2022
Dear @SecBlinken: It is the height of hypocrisy for the #Iran regime to hold a position of leadership on women's rights at the UN—and it gives them a dangerous propaganda platform. We urge you to introduce this resolution to expel the regime from @UN_CSW. https://t.co/4ES5abgDdx pic.twitter.com/x20xU01kKV
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 19, 2022
BREAKING: New Zealand PM calls to expel Iran from UN Women's Rights Commission. “It is not sustainable for a country that continues to so brutally attack the rights of women to belong to a pre-eminent global body dedicated to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment.” /1 pic.twitter.com/XQ2tNt8XOG
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 31, 2022
BREAKING: The Parliament of Canada 🇨🇦 is first in world to adopt motion calling to remove the Islamic regime of Iran from the UN Women's Rights Commission “given the brutal death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the IRGC, the subsequent crackdown in Iran on women's rights…” /1 pic.twitter.com/kxtMUgDhFu
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 31, 2022
BREAKING: After powerful remarks by @NazaninBoniadi, the U.S. announces before the United Nations that it will lead the effort to finally expel the Islamic Republic of Iran from the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission. #MahsaAmini
Our press release: https://t.co/l4XPHUGJz8 pic.twitter.com/jZ6iBeNiso
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 2, 2022
In April, we kicked Vladimir Putin off the U.N. Human Rights Council. Now we're about to kick his friend Ayatollah Khamenei off the U.N. Women's Rights Commission. pic.twitter.com/0KZFhrmzxs
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 2, 2022
I’m here at United Nations Headquarters in New York to demand justice for the people of Iran—including women & girls—who are risking their lives to end the fascist theocracy. We demand:
1. Urgent UNHRC session
2. Commission of Inquiry
3. Expel 🇮🇷 from UN Women’s Rights Commission pic.twitter.com/49A2ZtZh5v— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 8, 2022
BREAKING: 🇬🇧 UK announces it is working to expel Iran’s regime from the UN Women’s Rights Commission. @FCDOGovUK Minister @tariqahmadbt: “It cannot be right that Iran continues to be part of that body.” Bravo to Lord Polak for not giving up on this. pic.twitter.com/OOiSjrg9qb
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 11, 2022
BREAKING: For the first time in history the United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session on #Iran. We are demanding the creation of an international Commission of Inquiry, and a formal call to expel the Islamic Republic from the UN’s top women’s rights body. pic.twitter.com/ZCaybhEl5z
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 13, 2022
BREAKING: A month after we submitted a draft resolution ⤵️ to expel the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Women's Rights Commission, the U.S. has requested a special meeting to make it happen. There's no precedent or procedure for this—it's truly extraordinary. Never give up! https://t.co/JAPe9meg9Q pic.twitter.com/4FVop4iwHM
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 20, 2022
Today the murderous & misogynistic Ayatollah's regime sent a woman to tell the the United Nations how they respect women's rights, but she stopped while fumbling her papers. Because when people are asked to tell terrible lies, I told the assembly, they get flustered and confused. https://t.co/Ma5BYgxDWV pic.twitter.com/8VTHnXaQqs
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 24, 2022
GOOD NEWS: The UN will hold a vote on December 14 to expel the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Women's Rights Commission. The US-drafted text, which condemns Tehran's policies as “flagrantly contrary to the human rights of women,” follows a year-long campaign by UN Watch. https://t.co/YAsciwDVSI pic.twitter.com/2UCaK5WPdE
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 29, 2022
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Step 1: Remove the Islamic Regime in Iran from the U.N. Women's Rights Commission
Step 2: Remove the Islamic Regime in Iran
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 5, 2022
In April, we kicked Vladimir Putin off the U.N. Human Rights Council. Now we're about to kick his friend Ayatollah Khamenei off the U.N. Women's Rights Commission — next Wednesday, December 14. Then we need to remove this woman-torturing and child-killing regime from the world. pic.twitter.com/oRjT286H2t
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 6, 2022
The train has left the station: ahead of next week's vote to oust the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Women's Rights Commission, every United Nations human rights official and diplomat in Geneva will see our larger-than-life campaign exposing IRI's crimes. /1#ExpelAyatollah pic.twitter.com/gI2Mz6o6jl
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 7, 2022
History will record that three days before the crucial U.N. vote on a U.S. bid to expel Iran's misogynistic regime from the U.N. Women's Rights Commission, the giant groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are still silent. Why, @AgnesCallamard @TiranaHassan?
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 11, 2022
I salute 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇳🇿 New Zealand, 🇺🇸 US, 🇬🇧 Britain, 🇦🇺 Australia and 🇬🇹 Guatemala for declaring their support for expelling the Islamic Republic of Iran from the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission. The vote is in three days. We call on all nations and organizations to speak out.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 12, 2022
Good News: 🇫🇷 France has announced it will vote in favor of the resolution to expel the Islamic Regime in Iran from the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission. We exposed this obscene election last year when all were silent. Wednesday will be the day of justice—to undo this abomination. pic.twitter.com/BsJYJrC4Pu
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 12, 2022
Two days away from the vote to remove Iran’s regime from the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission. Ousting a member from this body has never been attempted before in the history of the United Nations. But momentum is on our side. We are going to expel the Ayatollah. pic.twitter.com/Uw8rnSwTEH
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 13, 2022
BREAKING: Ahead of today's vote, we submitted to @UNECOSOC President @lachezarastoeva our Appeal to UN Member States—signed by 36,346 people in 84 different countries—to expel the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
📜 https://t.co/jSTJUnmctS pic.twitter.com/cZv79IILhY— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 14, 2022
.@khamenei_ir Today we are going to expel you from the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission. That you were ever elected to it in the first place was an abomination. Then the free world needs to find the backbone to help Iranians put an end to your child-killing, woman-torturing regime. pic.twitter.com/8NyZNG1m7R
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 14, 2022
BREAKING: Russia's procedural bid to stall the vote on expelling Iran from the U.N. Women Rights Commission has just been defeated 26 to 11. This is a good sign for the final vote to come soon!
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 14, 2022
VICTORY! ⚡️
By a vote of 29 to 8, with 16 abstentions, the Islamic Republic of Iran was just expelled from the U.N. Women's Rights Commission. First time in United Nations history that any member state was removed from this body. Bravo to all who helped to make this happen! 🙏 pic.twitter.com/LDMBKTPWMO— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 14, 2022