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In the past week, Iran’s foreign minister was invited to address the annual opening session of the UN Human Rights Council. Steve McCabe MP, chair of Labour Friends of Israel, pledges his party’s full and proper application of the international body’s resolution to protect human rights.
“This decision – surreal at any time – is particularly grotesque at a moment when the regime in Tehran is continuing to brutally suppress protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini last September.” That Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was provided with a platform to slur the protesters – he said the demonstrations for women’s rights and democracy had “turned violent following malign interference by some terrorist elements” – is insulting to the memory of all those Tehran has gunned down, executed and tortured in recent months.
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The UN has been grotesque from it’s beginning, and also, for a long time, with it’s allowing of the worst human rights violators on the planet, such as Iran, to have a place on their “human rights” council.
Trump has spoken about defunding the WHO if he gets back in office - he needs to expand that to the entire UN.
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I heartily agree with you, Liz.
Iran does not actually have a seat on the UN’s Human Rights Council.
But many states as bad do:
https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/membership
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Excellent word choice, Liz…grotesque it is.
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