What does United Nations accountability look like? After former UN Human Rights Chief @raad_zeid hounded out Anders Kompass for daring to suggest raping children is not ok, the UN said it would start publishing statistics on reported rapes and sexual assaults by UN staff and peacekeepers.

The privilege of growing up in a democracy, whatever its faults (Belfast in the 80s and 90s wasn't great), is I never thought I'd have to ask a court to: - remove entirely invented strawman arguments I never made; - correct a blatant lie that they ignored "minor" arguments when

Guterres meeting again with the "people in charge" (his words). What new favours will the UN be adding to the long list of exceptional favours for China, notably provision of names of human rights activists? Bureau of International Organization Affairs committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…

This is a silly comment intended as pure provocation, but going to exploit it as an excuse to review where ~500k prisoners comes from. (1/5)

Journalist #ZhangZhan has been held at Pudong New Area Detention Center w/o trial for over a yr. At the upcoming Sept session of the UN Human Rights Council , Volker Türk & council member states should condemn #Beijing’s charges and call for her release. 📚nchrd.org/2025/08/china-…

UN Spokesperson António Guterres The man who fired a judge to stop him revealing the UN policy of handing names of dissidents to #Beijing is calling for rule of law in China.😂 smh.com.au/world/asia/aus…

2013-2020: UN Human Rights Office vociferously denies any names of activists were ever handed to China. Evidence shows the policy was (and is) in fact ongoing. 2020-2025: UN Human Rights Office sometimes says names were never handed over, other times that they stopped in 2015.

UHRP welcomes passage of the Uyghur Policy Act “This makes it U.S. policy to recognize and protect the distinct ethnic, religious, cultural, and linguistic identity of the Uyghurs,” said UHRP’s Omer Kanat Click to read more ➡️ uhrp.org/statement/uhrp…

"Last month President Trump said he would “do everything he can to save” Jimmy Lai. Why won’t Jimmy Lai’s own prime minister do the same?" Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC's warning to Keir Starmer that without immediate action, #JimmyLai's life hangs in the balance: thetimes.com/comment/column…

What nonsense; this is not a “new” tactic. Beijing has been stringing along U.S. trade negotiators for decades. What’s amazing is that we continue to fall for the same tactics. wsj.com/world/china/ch…

This week marks seven years of imprisonment for retired medical doctor Gulshan Abbas by CCP authorities. In 2019, Dr. Abbas was sentenced to 20 years in prison on dubious charges, cutting off her contact with friends and family. Despite clear concerns for Dr. Abbas’ health,

Pandemic Action Network The Independent Panel The Elders Africa-Europe Foundation The Pandemic Fund Helen Clark Juan Manuel Santos Mariangela Batista Galvao Simao John-Arne Røttingen Eloise Todd Aggrey Aluso Priya Basu Someone please ask Prince Zeid why he defended in court a right to pass names of #Uyghur, #Tibetan and dissidents' names to #China so their families could be targeted for arbitrary arrest and detention? Some died in concentration camps. He claims a better political relationship

My alma mater Cambridge University don't exactly like me (I ran a - successful - rent strike to prevent 70% rent increases which would have excluded poorer students like me), but they are the worst offender in the UK and need to stop sharing sensitive research with the CCP. They don't

We did what refugees are never supposed to do: we wrote a book that names and criticises the humanitarian agencies that are meant to be our “saviours” For years, they wrote about us. Reports, statistics, projects. Now we have written about them—about UNHCR, IOM, and the EU. And

Huge news! Prosecutors have dropped charges against two British men, including a former parliamentary researcher, who had been accused of spying for China. Christopher Cash, 30, and Christopher Berry, 33, had previously denied the charges under the Official Secrets Act.

The Czech Republic’s NÚKIB has issued a sobering and timely warning for the United States and our allies. The agency says there is a high-level cybersecurity threat when transferring system and user data to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). These findings highlight what

The U.S. Congress just reintroduced a rare bipartisan provision, first made law under Obama: if the UN does not respect best practices in #whistleblower protection, Congress must withhold 15% of funds. No ifs, no buts. I hope Mike Waltz will show the courage his predecessors

I did call it out. I called out YOUR ongoing policy of secretly handing names to #China so they can retaliate against dissidents. The UN expert on free speech told you to protect me and stop the policy. You ignored him. You fired me. You continue to tell China who to

As usual, Guterres is giving China exactly what they ask for. Studies into human rights "mainstreaming" are clear - it doesn't work. The only time the UN actually listened to victims was when it established a human rights office. Ban and Guterres successfully destroyed it by

Melissa Fleming 🇺🇳 António Guterres United Nations Wow - the UN is now so irrelevant that the only person who wants to interview Guterres on the eve of the #UNGA is his subordinate.