1. Mauritania still has slaves — an estimated 20% of its population. (https://t.co/VwgXBYHjB9)
2. Mauritania is about to be elected to the UN's top human rights body on Thursday, October 17th.
3. Here is a list of the human rights activist celebrities and athletes speaking out. pic.twitter.com/j1U6YHvbB2
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 15, 2019
No joke: the U.N. will tomorrow elect Mauritania — which has 500,000 slaves — to its highest human rights body.https://t.co/VwgXBYpIcz
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 16, 2019
And now even more dictators seek to join U.N. Human Rights Council in tomorrow's election:
🇻🇪 Venezuela – brutality caused millions to flee
🇲🇷 Mauritania – 500,000 black slaves
🇸🇩 Sudan – female genital mutilation
🇱🇾 Libya – tortures African migrants
🇮🇶 Iraq – kills protesters https://t.co/Z91q8SR81M— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 16, 2019
Meet the candidates: 🇸🇩 #Mauritania set to win U.N. Human Rights Council seat this Thursday.
Credentials:
✅ Has 500,000 slaves
✅ Arrests anti-slavery activists, like Biram Dah Abeid
✅ Torture to extract confessions
✅ Death penalty for homosexualityhttps://t.co/0xdbrI9L3b— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 12, 2019
As the U.N. today elects slave state Mauritania to its Human Rights Council, I share this:
1. "Mr. President, people around the world ask: 'Why does a human rights council include so many non-democracies?' Defenders of the system have a ready reply: “We need a big tent…” pic.twitter.com/TBc9LJCIPi
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 17, 2019
If our leaders do nothing, on Thursday these 5 get elected to the U.N. Human Rights Council:
🇻🇪 Venezuela – brutality caused millions to flee
🇲🇷 Mauritania – 500,000 black slaves
🇸🇩 Sudan – female genital mutilation
🇱🇾 Libya – tortures African migrants
🇮🇶 Iraq – kills protesters— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 15, 2019
BREAKING: Venezuela beats Costa Rica by 9 votes to win election to UN Human Rights Council.
Here are the % of votes received by top abusers just elected:
🇻🇪 Venezuela: 54%
🇲🇷 Mauritania: 89%
🇱🇾 Libya: 87%
🇸🇩 Sudan: 91%— UN Watch (@UNWatch) October 17, 2019
SHAME: Venezuela dictator Nicolás Maduro destroyed his country, starved his people & crushed dissidents. So the U.N. just now elected him to its "Human Rights Council."
Also elected:
🇲🇷 Mauritania, which has 500,000 slaves – won 89% of votes
🇱🇾 Libya – 87%
🇸🇩 Sudan – 91% pic.twitter.com/0MQO1v1gGe— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 17, 2019
Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro devastated his country, starved his own people and crushed pro-democracy dissidents. Four million have fled. Electing his regime to the U.N. human rights council was obscene.
My op-ed in the New York Post:https://t.co/IWEWBLpc12 @nypost @NYPostOpinion
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 20, 2019
I am pleased to announce the launch of the Global Campaign to Expel Maduro from the UNHRC.
We did the same after Qaddafi won a seat in 2010 by a large majority. People laughed at us. Then the madman went to war with EU states who suddenly embraced our campaign & expelled him. https://t.co/Me088Npck3
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 17, 2019
Diego Arria, exembajador de Venezuela ante las Naciones Unidas y ex presidente del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, fue designado como líder de una campaña para desalojar al régimen de Nicolás Maduro del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU.https://t.co/1oO5f8XvL7 pic.twitter.com/yt828ilaIN
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) October 18, 2019
We have the honor to announce that Diego Arria, former President of the United Nations Security Council & former Ambassador of Venezuela to the U.N., is Chair of the new Global Campaign to Expel Maduro from the U.N. Human Rights Council.https://t.co/wainC4ISkQ @Diego_Arria
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 18, 2019
VERGÜENZA: El dictador Nicolás Maduro de Venezuela destruyó a su país y aplastó a la disidencia, entonces la ONU le dio una banca en el “Consejo de Derechos Humanos”
También electos:
🇲🇷 Mauritania, que tiene 500,000 esclavos – 89% de los votos
🇱🇾 Libia – 87%
🇸🇩 Sudán – 91% pic.twitter.com/Qg9bte71Or— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 17, 2019