Top UN Watch Tweets of the Week: Jan 1 – Jan 6

Trending UN Watch tweets from this past week: Belgium assumes its Security Council seat, which it earned in part by voting the Saudis onto the UN body tasked with protecting women’s rights; as Israel requests compensation for Jews displaced in 1948, UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer asks Arab nations, “Algeria, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Iraq: Where are your Jews?”; Somalia joins the UN Human Rights Council, and the next day expels a UN envoy for speaking out on human rights; and the new head of the UN General Assembly is revealed to be an admirer of both Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. But…

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~	Indigenous women are most affected by domestic violence but have struggled to be heard. It’s time we listened

~	With Pause, US Joins Other States Stopping Arms Transfers to Israel

~	UN expert raises alarm over unfair treatment of pro-Palestinian student protesters in US

~	Germany: British-Palestinian Doctor Denied Schengen Entry

~	Love is the driving force behind the cries, the marches and the search for our disappeared loved ones

~	A jacket, a coin, a letter − relics of Omaha Beach battle tell the story of D-Day 80 years later

~	Lassa fever case in Paris: what you need to know

~	Mexico’s criminal gangs stir up political violence ahead of election season

~	AI system can predict the structures of life’s molecules with stunning accuracy – helping to solve one of biology’s biggest problems

~	I’ve spent decades overseeing relief operations around the world, and here’s what’s going wrong in Gaza