Iran, Backer of Hamas, Chairing the U.N. Human Rights Council Social Forum
American ambassador: “Notwithstanding our concerns over the utility of the @UN_HRC Social Forum in general, we categorically refuse to sit, converse, or engage in any discussion on human rights chaired by Iran.”
Iran, a country that imprisons women who do not cover their heads, will chair the United Nations Human Rights Council Social Forum.
The Social Forum is a two-day event that “will focus on the contribution of science, technology and innovation to the promotion of human rights, including in the context of post-pandemic recovery.”
As Chairperson-Rapporteur, Iran leads the discussions.
The fact that Iran even had an opportunity to hold this position is absurd.
Then again, the United Nations is absurd. From Fox News:
“The United States finds it absurd that an official from the Iranian regime will assume the role of Chair for the Human Rights Council’s one-day ‘Social Forum,’” U.S. Permanent Representative to the Human Rights Council Ambassador Michele Taylor wrote in a statement ahead of the forum.
“It is unacceptable that any body associated with the promotion and protection of human rights be chaired by a representative from a nation implicated in such persistent and flagrant human rights abuses as Iran,” she added, stressing that the U.S. “categorically” refuses to “sit, converse, or engage in any discussion on human rights chaired by Iran.”
The Human Rights Council in May appointed Iranian Ambassador Ali Bahreini as the chair-rapporteur for the 2023 “Social Forum,” which per the letter announcing the appointment focuses on “the promotion of human rights.” This year’s theme particularly focuses on the use of science, technology and innovation to help in that pursuit.
The United States takes a principled stand today. Notwithstanding our concerns over the utility of the @UN_HRC Social Forum in general, we categorically refuse to sit, converse, or engage in any discussion on human rights chaired by Iran.
Press Release: https://t.co/17YfmovfXF pic.twitter.com/guK1Djo1Cw
— Ambassador Michèle Taylor (@USAmbHRC) November 2, 2023
Let’s not forget that Iran backs Hamas, the terrorist group that invaded and murdered thousands of Israelis and kidnapped over 200.
The UN made the announcement two days after the regime hanged two men for blasphemy.
Iran is one of the world’s top executioners:
Iran remains one of the world’s top executioners, having put to death at least 203 prisoners since the start of this year alone, according to the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights. But carrying out executions for blasphemy remains rare, as previous cases saw the sentences reduced by authorities.
The two men executed, Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare, died at Arak Prison in central Iran. They had been arrested in May 2020, accused of being involved in a channel on the Telegram message app called “Critique of Superstition and Religion,” according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Both men faced months of solitary confinement and could not contact their families, the commission said.
The Mizan news agency of Iran’s judiciary confirmed the executions, describing the two men as having insulted Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and promoted atheism. Mizan also accused them of burning a Quran, Islam’s holy book, though it wasn’t clear whether the men allegedly did that or such imagery was shared in the Telegram channel.
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Why are we still funding the UN? Stop doing so, expel them and use those facilities trials of crooked and treasonous people,
After looking at his credentials, he appears to be fair and impartial. I wholeheartedly nominate him to fill the newly established position in the Biden Administration of Islamophobia Czar.
Looking back twenty years or more it is obvious that we should resign from the UN. Almost every issue it was designed to address and solve, it has failed at. The idiotic rotation of certain roles of its members leads to absurd leadership. They have never prevented a war nor have they ever solved an international issue. They are always pro-Muslim and anti-US. Whenever they maintain a large presence in a country, multiple sex crimes are committed by their staff. Other than a forum to spout their anti -Democracy views, there is no other reason to be a member.
Unfortunately, not a Babylon Bee headline
Now right there, that’s a picture
Our UN membership is still worth something. But this UN “human rights commission” is a separate body, and we were out of it until Biden got us back in.
Then-US Ambassador the UN Nikki Haley accused the council of bias against Israel and failing to hold human rights abusers accountable when the US left the panel in 2018.
“For too long,” Haley said in 2018, “the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers, and a cesspool of political bias.”
“Human rights abusers continue to serve on, and be elected to, the council,” she said. “The world’s most inhumane regimes continue to escape its scrutiny, and the council continues politicizing scapegoating of countries with positive human rights records in an attempt to distract from the abusers in its ranks.“
The U.N. descended into irrelevance, farce and moral bankruptcy a long time ago. This Iran committee chair is merely another episode in a long and noxious charade.
It should be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, but it won’t.
Time to reduce ifinancial support to subsistence levels and get rif of UNRWA!
“the promotion of human rights.” This year’s theme particularly focuses on the use of science, technology and innovation to help in that pursuit.”
Sneaking suspicion that this ties in with the EU’s new, invasive, AI censorship initiative (coupled with social media and outfits like Politico’s EU news service. Politico.eu is literally a speech monitor for the EU Commission and EU Council.
This is the group looking to squelch Elon Musk. All of it intentionally launched prior to the coming EU and US election cycle. Vera Jourova just last week met her US counterparts in NY or DC.
@Verajourova is the frontwoman. Take five minutes and scroll through a few months of her tweets. A smiling face of villainy.
Good for Amb. Taylor!
(taking a page from Nikki Haley imo)
Sometimes, even the Biden adm gets it right.
“Iran, a country that imprisons women who do not cover their heads”
It doesn’t just imprison them, it rapes them and beats them to death.
Nor is it not wearing a hijab, even some hair uncovered is sufficient.