The United Nations Human Rights Council announced Tuesday that it will be holding a special session on Afghanistan next week to discuss “the serious human rights concerns and situation” in the country.
? We shamed the UN Human Rights Council into holding an urgent session on Afghanistan. Just announced: https://t.co/7qZgVdZkpp
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 17, 2021
?? This special session won't be convened for ANOTHER WEEK. @UN_HRC, innocents are getting slaughtered by the Taliban NOW. Women are in danger NOW. https://t.co/66iG6hMl1m
But Hillel Neuer, international lawyer and executive director of UN Watch, noticed something rather disturbing about which countries co-sponsored the session.
“The main co-sponsor of next week’s UNHRC urgent session on the human rights situation in Afghanistan is Pakistan—the Taliban’s top sponsor. That’s like OJ calling an urgent meeting to find the killer. And the other co-sponsor is Afghanistan itself—i.e., the Taliban?”
Neuer tweeted an image of the announcement, which notes that in order for a special session to be called, one-third of the council’s members must agree. The request on Afghanistan was supported by 29 member states.
BREAKING: The main co-sponsor of next week’s UNHRC urgent session on the human rights situation in Afghanistan is ???? Pakistan—the Taliban’s top sponsor. That’s like OJ calling an urgent meeting to find the killer.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 18, 2021
And the other co-sponsor is Afghanistan itself—i.e., the Taliban? https://t.co/4f8sNIKwgp pic.twitter.com/BcygCXGe6d
Unbelievable https://t.co/PfE97y6lOw
— Ahmad Batebi (@radiojibi) August 19, 2021
This is exactly what you would expect from the grotesque UNHRC https://t.co/GeYCU9Sh3X
— Stephen Pollard (@stephenpollard) August 18, 2021
This does sound about right from the United Nations https://t.co/HD84iZXhrx
— Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) August 18, 2021
This development comes as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, boasted this week about how the Security Council issued a "very strongly worded press statement" warning the Taliban to respect human rights and humanitarian law.
