Trending UN Watch tweets from March & April: Russia
suspended from the UN Human Rights Council following UN Watch campaign; Putin’s regime lies while cracking down on its people’s freedoms; terror wave hits Israel as Amnesty and UNHRC fan the flames; Iran joins the UN Women’s Rights Commission.
BREAKING: U.N. expels Russia from Human Rights Council. Vote was overwhelming and exactly as we predicted: 93 Yes to 24 No. We only needed double No votes to Yes votes for required 2/3 majority. The 58 abstentions don't count. Backstory of our campaign: https://t.co/ubbex260oz https://t.co/v9jGJyganC pic.twitter.com/8C9522K7B7
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 7, 2022
For God's sake, Russia cannot remain on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 2, 2022
LIST OF SHAME: Countries who just voted No on a resolution condemning Russia's war on Ukraine:
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇰🇵 North Korea
🇷🇺 Russia
🇸🇾 SyriaAbstained:
🇩🇿 Algeria
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇨🇳 China
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇮🇷 Iran
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇳🇦 Namibia
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇻🇳 Vietnam
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
… pic.twitter.com/r1g6KkKG13- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 2, 2022
BREAKING: Russia to be ousted from U.N. Human Rights Council. @USAmbUN will lead the push with Ukraine & European states. It's guaranteed to pass because only a handful will vote No & abstentions won't count for required 2/3 majority. More on our campaign: https://t.co/EFuGuGSuZJ https://t.co/7CTMy8PZSN
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 4, 2022
@antonioguterres, what gives you the right to oppose our campaign to expel Russia from the UNHRC?https://t.co/2sGQnfNd3v
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 2, 2022
Expel Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council. Now.
Retweet if you agree.
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 7, 2022
The criminal regime causing this human misery is still sitting on the United Nations Human Rights Council. https://t.co/CfRCFTGNq3
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 7, 2022
Ukraine is burning and I'm here in Geneva at the United Nation Human Rights Council where Vladimir Putin's Russia is a member. History will record that every day for the past month, including in testimony before the plenary, we urged the UNHRC to expel Putin and they refused.
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 27, 2022
Putin’s Regime Lies While Cracking Down on its People’s Freedoms
🇷🇺 Lavrov just now: “We don't plan to attack other countries. We did not attack Ukraine either.”
Congratulations, Sergey Lavrov @mfa_russia: You are now officially the Baghdad Bob of our time. pic.twitter.com/UUlVxkCsIo
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 10, 2022
Putin's Russia has gone full Orwell: woman taken away by police in Nizhny Novgorod for holding up a BLANK poster. https://t.co/dSP9vDlBjC
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 12, 2022
Throughout the 1930s there was one brilliant man who persistently warned and urged action against Hitler. When war came, his country naturally turned to him.
In our time, a brilliant man warned and urged action against Putin. He’s not running for office, but follow @Kasparov63.
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 1, 2022
Russian fighter jets, in largest air attack of this war, fired 30 cruise missiles at a military base near the Polish border, used by the U.S. & Canada to train Ukrainian forces.
Iran fired a dozen missiles at Erbil near the U.S. Consulate compound.
The West has no deterrence.
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 13, 2022
Terror Wave Hits Israel as Amnesty and UN Human Rights Council Fan the Flames
So I just testified now before the human rights sub-committee of the Canadian Parliament and my colleagues on the panel from Amnesty International spent far more time condemning the only democracy in the Middle East than they did on Russia's assault against the people of Ukraine.
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 1, 2022
Terror in Israel: In 7 days, 11 Israelis killed in 3 terror attacks.
On Thursday, here in Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council will condemn Israel in 4 separate resolutions and appoint @FranceskAlb-who compares Israelis to Nazis-as permanent investigator of “Israel's violations.” https://t.co/8MMh6vHmlT
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 29, 2022
Today I am in the capital of Israel, where 200 minaret loudspeakers call Muslims to pray, Arabs and Jews are in the same parks, malls and hospitals, and an Arab party is in the governing coalition.
On Thursday I will be in Geneva, where the UNHRC will accuse Israel of apartheid.
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 20, 2022
Iran Joins the UN Women’s Rights Commission
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
A regime that subjugates women and forces them to cover their hair, and which sentenced a courageous dissenter to 24 years in prison for removing her headscarf, has just joined the U.N.'s top body for gender equality and the empowerment of women. Our democracies were all silent.
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 27, 2022
Liking, retweeting, following: UN Watch tweets were liked and shared by thousands around the world, including by opinion leaders and celebrities such as:
- Former UN Security Council President Diego Arria
- Former Bolivian president Tuto Quiroga
- World chess champion Garry Kasparov, Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol & politician Leonid Volkov, Saudi dissident Raif Badawi, Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado, Chinese political cartoonist Badiucao
- Former U.S. ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley
- Canadian ambassador to the UN Bob Rae, former ambassador to the UN Louise Blais, senators Leo Housakos & Denise Batters, former immigration minister Chris Alexander, MPs Melissa Lantsman & Kyle Seeback
- UK MP Rebecca Harris, member of UK House of Lords Helena Morrissey
- Dutch MEP Peter van Dalen, Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers, former Kosovo foreign minister Meliza Haradinaj, Israeli MK Ruth Wasserman Lande
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies president Clifford May, CEO Mark Dubowitz, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies executive director Kyle Matthews, former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani, Lawyers Without Borders president William Goldnadel, Human Rights Foundation chief strategy officer Alex Gladstein, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt
- U.S. actor Joshua Malina, Miss Iraq Sarah Idan, former professional baseball player & journalist Adam Housely, U.S. singer David Draiman, UK TV presenter Rachel Riley, U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly
Many journalists also liked or shared UN Watch’s tweets, including:
- CNN anchor Jake Tapper & reporter Melissa Mahtani, The Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg, The Atlantic writer Yair Rosenberg, National Review contributing editor Andrew Stuttaford, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, journalist Melissa Chan
- Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi
