Beginning today, November 2 and continuing until Friday, November 3, the UN's Social Forum of the Human Rights Council will be meeting to focus “on the contribution of science, technology and innovation to the promotion of human rights, including in the context of post-pandemic recovery.”

So naturally, this being the United Nations, the forum will be headed (literally) by Iran’s Ali Bahreini:

Ali Bahreini took office as Ambassador, Permanent Representative of I.R. Iran to the United Nations Office at Geneva, in Switzerland on 28 September 2022.

Prior to his appointment, since 2016, Mr. Bahreini was, Advisor to the Deputy Minister for Political Affairs at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He was also Ambassador of I.R. Iran to Ethiopia from 2012 to 2016, and simultaneously Permanent Representative of Iran to the African Union. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Bahreini was also posted to the Iranian Embassy in Berlin.

The ambassador Bahreini served as Director of the Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2012, after been Deputy Director of the same Department from 2006 to 2009.

His diplomat career has root at same department in which he worked from 1999 to 2002.

H.E. Mr. Bahreini was born in 1971, Mr. Bahreini holds a PhD in International Law.

Nope -- this is not a sick post-Halloween joke; this is the UN, and His Excellency (sic) Bahreini from Iran exemplifies the work of the UN Human Rights (sic) Council. 

 Iran defines "human rights" -- which obviously the UN approves -- as:

1) Mass executions by beheading, public hangings, or other forms of individual or mass executions. 

Iran executes more people than any country except China -- since 2010, 6,885 individuals have been executed by the Islamic Republic, typically by hanging, according to the Iran Human Rights Organization. Most of those executed are convicted of murder and drug-related offenses. Last year, Iran put 333 prisoners to death, including at least two children and 10 women.

Capital punishment has deep ties to the regime. In 1988, thousands of political prisoners were executed under Ebrahim Raeesi, the current President of Iran, who was its judiciary chief at the time, and the Islamic Republic’s late founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Human Rights Watch said the mass executions amounted to crimes against humanity and are among the most odious crimes in international law.

2) Approved discrimination against women in marriage, divorce, child custody, dress codes, employment, right to travel independently, etc.  

3) Approved discrimination against all non-Shia Muslim individuals/religions such as Christians, Jews, Baha'Is, Zoroastrians, sometimes other branches of Islam.

The constitution defines the country as an Islamic republic and specifies Twelver Ja’afari Shia Islam as the official state religion. It states all laws and regulations must be based on “Islamic criteria” and an official interpretation of sharia. (snip)

According to numerous international human rights NGOs and media reporting, the government convicted and executed dissidents, political reformers, and peaceful protesters on charges of “enmity against God” and spreading anti-Islamic propaganda. Authorities carried out hudud punishments such as amputation of fingers (for theft), flogging, and internal exile. The government denied individuals access to attorneys and obtained false confessions through torture in some cases. It reportedly detained and held members of religious minorities incommunicado.

4) Etc. and etc.

As mentioned previously, this is the UN.

But there is a simple solution to this problem:

U.S. out of the UN!  UN out of the U.S.!

Image: United States Mission Geneva