Today, the impartial non-governmental human rights group UN Watch submitted a draft decision to the United Nations to overturn the appointment of the Islamic Republic of Iran as Chair of the Social Forum of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Please see the total textual content under.
This textual content was included in UN Watch’s submission to the 53rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Member states have been now required to formally sponsor the decision.
There is not any set process for canceling such appointments. However, the 47-nation UNHRC plenary council can overturn any choice by the president.
“There was no process to expel Iran from the UN Committee on Women’s Rights, however we accomplished it,” stated Hillel Neuer, government director of UN Watch.
“We are much more grateful to the 75,000 individuals around the globe who signed our petition to stop the Iranian regime from chairing the United Nations Human Rights Council Social Forum in November. . Our objective is to achieve 100,000 individuals earlier than asking world leaders for assist,” Neuer stated.
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keep in mind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination in opposition to Women;
keep in mind The Human Rights Council promotes common respect for the safety of all human rights and basic freedoms for all, as said in General Assembly decision 60/251, and promotes common respect for the safety of all human rights and basic freedoms for all, and It was established to take care of systematic violations and make suggestions in opposition to them.
keep in mind additional away all earlier resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council concerning the human rights scenario in Iran;
categorical severe concern Since September 2022, the federal government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has continued to violate and more and more repress the human rights of girls and women, together with freedom of expression and opinion, by implementing insurance policies, usually utilizing extreme pressure. Exercise is happening. Use of lethal pressure ensuing within the dying of peaceable protesters, together with girls and women, in gross violation of the human rights of girls and women and the orders of the Human Rights Council.
Focus on it With nice concern, the appointment of the consultant of the Islamic Republic of Iran as chair of the 2023 United Nations Human Rights Council Social Forum,
emphasize that the appointment of a consultant of a authorities with such a deplorable human rights file significantly undermines the credibility and function of each the Human Rights Council and the Social Forum;
keep in mind A latest report by the Special Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights in Iran highlighted widespread human rights abuses and abuses in Iran, together with state-sanctioned violence in opposition to girls and women, abstract executions of peaceable protesters, and suppression of freedoms. It exposes the tough actuality. Expressions that recommend the opportunity of crimes in opposition to humanity;
- resolve Immediately revoke the appointment of the consultant of the Islamic Republic of Iran as chair of the 2023 UN Human Rights Council Social Forum.
9/ A reporter stated to me: “But European diplomats say it will be good for the UN Human Rights Council to turn into an enormous tent, permitting international locations like Iran, China, Russia and Venezuela to take part, study and enhance. ”
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 28, 2023