The United Nations has elected 10 regimes that “repress human rights activists” to its 19-nation committee on nongovernmental organizations, according to UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer.
Neuer took to Twitter on April 14 to announce the regimes that had been elected to the committee on NGOs—which oversees the work of human rights groups across the globe—by members of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
Members of ECOSOC voted on April 13 to elect 19 members in total, from five regional groups, who will serve on the committee for the next four years beginning this year.
Those 19 members will act as the “gatekeepers for civil society at the UN as they decide which NGOs receive UN accreditation participation rights,” according to the International Service for Human Rights, an independent NGO that promotes and protects human rights.
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