Top Tweets of the Week: Jan 1 – Jan 6

Trending UN Watch tweets from this past week: Belgium assumes its Security Council seat, which UN Watch exposed it earned by voting Saudi Arabia on to the UN Women’s Rights Commission in 2017; As Israel requests compensation for Jews displaced in 1948, UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer repeats his call on Arab nations to answer his question, “Where are your Jews?” with continued silence from the UN; Somalia—which began its UN Human Rights Council membership without opposition from Human Rights Watch’s Ken Roth—expels a UN envoy for its human rights probing on its second day…

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~	Burkina Faso: Army Massacres 223 Villagers

~	Lebanon: Stepped-Up Repression of Syrians

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~	‘It bucked our lads up wonderfully’: the lightning-quick battle that marked the birth of the US-Australia military alliance

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