{"id":1173479,"date":"2021-12-30T18:34:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T23:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1173479"},"modified":"2021-12-30T18:34:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T23:34:36","slug":"happy-new-year-activist-mocks-u-n-human-rights-council-that-includes-china-cuba-russia-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/happy-new-year-activist-mocks-u-n-human-rights-council-that-includes-china-cuba-russia-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Happy New Year\u2019: Activist Mocks U.N. \u2018Human Rights\u2019 Council That Includes China, Cuba, Russia, And More"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhappy-new-year-activist-mocks-u-n-human-rights-council-that-includes-china-cuba-russia-and-more%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1173479&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Human rights activist and international attorney Hillel Neuer shared a thread Tuesday naming the ten worst regimes \u2014 as well as their offenses \u2014 that will have a seat in 2022 as part of the United Nations\u2019 powerful Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy New Year,\u201d Neuer tweeted with a list ranking the \u201ctop ten worst\u201d regimes (beginning with number 10) as follows:<\/p>\n<p>10: Pakistan9: Mauritania8: Qatar7: Somalia6: Russia5: Libya4: Cuba3: Eritrea2: Venezuela1: China<\/p>\n<p>Neuer followed the list with a series of details that he argued ought to bar them from a seat on the council that is tasked with \u201cstrengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and for addressing situations of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/human-rights-watch-accuses-ioc-of-collaboration-with-chinese-authorities-in-video-call-with-tennis-star\/\">human rights violations<\/a>,\u201d namely because in many cases, they stand accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/msnbc-producer-slammed-over-remark-about-chinas-human-rights-abuses-you-absolute-clown\/\">egregious violations<\/a> of the same.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/hrbodies\/hrc\/pages\/aboutcouncil.aspx\">organization\u2019s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and for addressing situations of human rights violations and make recommendations on them. It has the ability to discuss all thematic human rights issues and situations that require its attention throughout the year. It meets at the UN Office at Geneva.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Neuer began with 10th-ranked Pakistan, listing the nation\u2019s \u201ccredentials\u201d as follows: \u201cPersecutes Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Shias, Ahmadis; sponsors terror groups Afghan Taliban, HQN, LeT, JeM; backs Chinese genocide of Muslim Uighurs; abducts journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">#10: \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf0 Pakistan<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN_HRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UN_HRC<\/a> Credentials: Persecutes Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Shias, Ahmadis; sponsors terror groups Afghan Taliban, HQN, LeT, JeM; backs Chinese genocide of Muslim Uighurs; abducts journalists. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/emqFbVB9N9\">pic.twitter.com\/emqFbVB9N9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/1475917107460198408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Number nine on the list, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/1475917680020492289\">Mauritania<\/a>, has been dubbed \u201cslavery\u2019s last stand\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/interactive\/2012\/03\/world\/mauritania.slaverys.last.stronghold\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>&nbsp;and according to Neuer, boasts some half a million slaves among its population. Anti-slavery activists are often arrested, and officials have been known to resort to torture in order to extract confessions from the accused. In addition, homosexuality in Mauritania is punishable by death.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar ranks 8th on Neuer\u2019s list, in part because the nation\u2019s treatment of migrant workers. \u201cCaused 6,750 migrant workers to die for 2022 World Cup; discrimination against women; supports terrorists including Al Qaeda in Syria, Jihadis in Libya and Somalia, the Taliban and Hamas,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">#8: \ud83c\uddf6\ud83c\udde6 Qatar<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN_HRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UN_HRC<\/a> Credentials: Caused 6,750 migrant workers to die for 2022 World Cup; discrimination against women; supports terrorists including Al Qaeda in Syria, Jihadis in Libya and Somalia, the Taliban and Hamas. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/naCrDqy5Ok\">pic.twitter.com\/naCrDqy5Ok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/1475918222264311816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seventh-ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/1475918475214430229\">Somalia<\/a> has been called \u201ca living hell\u201d for women, perhaps in part because \u201c95% of girls aged 4 to 11 face genital mutilation,\u201d and \u201cwomen are at constant risk of getting shot or raped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia comes in at number 6, and it\u2019s no wonder. With a background in the former Soviet Union\u2019s KGB, President Vladimir Putin has been the front man while Russia \u201cbombs Syrian civilians, trampled Ukraine, swallowed Crimea, poisons dissidents, no free or fair elections, tortures detainees, imprisons opposition leader Alexei Navalny, crushes freedom of speech and assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">#6: \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN_HRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UN_HRC<\/a> Credentials: Bombs Syrian civilians, trampled Ukraine, swallowed Crimea, poisons dissidents, no free or fair elections, tortures detainees, imprisons opposition leader Alexei Navalny, crushes freedom of speech and assembly. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qkONO9YlMq\">pic.twitter.com\/qkONO9YlMq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/1475919409659187203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Libya, ranked 5th, features an unelected government that \u201ctortures migrants\u201d and engages in \u201carbitrary arrests\u201d and \u201cextrajudicial killings.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomhouse.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Worst%20of%20the%20Worst%202012%20final%20report.pdf\">Libya<\/a> has repeatedly been ranked \u201cworst of the worst\u201d on Freedom House\u2019s list of the world\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/sites\/default\/files\/WorstOfTheWorst2011.pdf\">most repressive societies<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fourth-ranked Cuba boasts a \u201c60-year totalitarian regime; bans free speech, association; blocks vital food &amp; medical aid; infiltrates &amp; subverts entire hemisphere; drug trafficking; sends doctors abroad as slave labor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">#4: \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfa Cuba<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN_HRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UN_HRC<\/a> Credentials: 60-year totalitarian regime; bans free speech, association; blocks vital food &amp; medical aid; infiltrates &amp; subverts entire hemisphere; drug trafficking; sends doctors abroad as slave labor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ADGWStc49C\">pic.twitter.com\/ADGWStc49C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/1475921573022425093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/1475923219060301830\">Eritrea<\/a> comes in third and according to Neuer, has a lengthy list of \u201cqualifications\u201d \u2014 including: \u201cAuthoritarian regime; forced child labor; arbitrary executions; disappears dissidents; torture; arbitrary arrest; denial of fair public trial; restrictions on freedom of speech, assembly, association, and religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second spot is reserved for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/1475929378718732289\">Venezuela<\/a>, under the rule of dictator Nicolas Maduro \u2014 who \u201cdestroyed his country; starved his people; crushed pro-democracy dissidents; caused 5 million to flee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Communist China takes the top spot after its Communist Party leadership \u201cherded 1 million Uighurs into camps; jails human rights activists; crushed Tibet; disappeared courageous men and women who sounded the alarm on the Coronavirus; suffocated freedom in Hong Kong; put @JamesChau into WHO to whitewash COVID crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">#1: \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3 China<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN_HRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UN_HRC<\/a> Credentials: Herded 1 million Uighurs into camps; jails human rights activists; crushed Tibet; disappeared courageous men and women who sounded the alarm on the Coronavirus; suffocated freedom in Hong Kong; put <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jameschau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JamesChau<\/a> into WHO to whitewash COVID crimes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TLMZ8ZAGyQ\">pic.twitter.com\/TLMZ8ZAGyQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/1475930025262264323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strength of the Human Rights Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights activist and international attorney Hillel Neuer shared a thread Tuesday naming the ten worst regimes \u2014 as well as their offenses \u2014 that will have a seat in 2022 as part of the United Nations\u2019 powerful Human Rights Council. \u201cHappy New Year,\u201d Neuer tweeted with a list ranking the \u201ctop ten worst\u201d regimes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}