UN Watch Seeks Answers Over UN Posts Awarded to Rights Abusers
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UN Watch is demanding explanations from democracies for why “serial abusers of human rights” were elected to key UN bodies, citing Iran’s nomination to a committee and the election of China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan to others, and warning such moves undermine human rights advocacy and the UN’s rule‑based order.
- UN Watch demands democracies explain election of human rights abusers to UN positions The Jerusalem Post
- Explanation of Position on the ECOSOC Election of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations and the Committee on Program and Coordination United States Mission to the United Nations (.gov)
- Outrage at UN: Democracies Enable Iran, China, Cuba to Oversee Human Rights Bodies UN Watch
- Adam Zivo: Canada backs terrorist-state Iran reviewing UN programs to stop terrorism National Post
- Repressive states secure most seats on UN’s NGO Committee Democracy Without Borders
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