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Executive Director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, delivers an urgent and scathing address to the UN Human Rights Council, regarding the dire human rights crisis in Afghanistan and the world’s indifference. He highlights how the Islamic Republic of Iran has deported 1.8 million Afghans, condemning them to life under the Taliban.
UNHRC Chair:
I Give the floor to United Nations Watch.
Hillel Neuer, UN Watch:
Mr. President, we express condolences to the families of 2,000 victims who perished in the earthquake last week in Afghanistan. This tragedy was only made worse by what happened next.
Rescue workers, applying Taliban rules, refused to help trapped and injured women and girls, some of them bleeding. They were left under the rubble.
Four years after seizing power, the Taliban continues to trample basic human rights of its own people.
Women are banned from speaking or showing their faces.
Human rights activists, journalists, teachers have faced enforced disappearances, torture and summary executions.
And now, into this torment, the Islamic Republic of Iran has since June expelled 700,000 Afghan refugees, violently rounding them up.
Humiliated from its war with Israel, Tehran is seeking a scapegoat and accuses Afghan refugees of being spies. Many are beaten.
‘They threw us out like garbage,” said Sahar, a mother of five.
Already this year, Iran has expelled 1.8 million refugees. That’s why we brought Afghan activists here:
Husna and Dr. Massouda Jalal, Nila Ibrahimi, Zarifa Ghafari, to sound the alarm.
But where is the rest of the world?
Where are the mass rallies in London, Paris and Madrid for suffering Afghan women and girls?
Where are the campus protests for 1.8 million Muslim refugees expelled by Iran?
Why is the UN Secretary General silent?
And we ask this Human Rights Council, why are you now planning to elect, by acclamation on October 8, a representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
