The UN Won’t Stop a Real Genocide

by Phyllis Chesler

Deepti Mahajan, the Director of the Coalition for Hindu Girls Abducted and Their Rights, and a successful businesswoman, has just bravely written a Complaint which she will submit to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) “on the Genocide inflicted upon the Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs of Pakistan.”

Mahajan’s Complaint is single spaced and goes on for 43 pages, documenting Pakistan’s extraordinary violation of Article 2 of the 1948 Genocide Convention. She will present the Complaint on March 8th, which is International Women’s Day. In a cover letter to potential signatories, Mahajan writes: “We know the word genocide has been misused as in the case of Israel, but there is no doubt what has happened in Pakistan.”

Oh — the lies told about Israel at the United Nations, especially at the UNHRC are legion. For example, on February 27, 2025, during one of the UNHRC’s endless discussions about Israel’s alleged “occupation” of Palestine, the powers that be, in this case Jurg Lauber, shut down Professor Anne Bayefsky’s invited two-minute testimony, which began this way: “We now know that Palestinian savages murdered Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his older brother, 4-year-old Ariel Bibas.” Lauber found her language unacceptable.

I Go Back a Long Way With the United Nations.

On November 10, 1975, the United Nations passed Resolution #3379, which equated Zionism and Racism. Working with the late Harry Steinberg, of Writers and Artists for Peace in the Middle East, I rushed around town trying to gather celebrity and feminist signatories against it. Led by a Soviet-Arab coalition, the Resolution was adopted by 72 members; 35 nations opposed it and 32 nations abstained.

From that moment on, I understood that the UN would be hell-bent on legalizing Jew hatred; that it would probably never prevent or punish a real genocide; that it would do absolutely nothing on behalf of women — and even less on behalf of Christians and other endangered minorities within countries.

When I organized a first-ever global feminist conference under the aegis of the UN, I chose Oslo as the venue, and I chose the week before the 1980 UN World Conference on Women, which was to take place in nearby Copenhagen. That’s when I learned even more about the UN:  That many diplomats not only treated their home-country servants as slaves, but they also sexually harassed and raped their female (sometimes their male) employees — and were rarely held accountable for doing so.

Now back to Pakistan.

For a long time now, Muslim gangs have been kidnapping mainly Hindu girls, taking them to Pakistan, raping, forcibly converting them, and then forcibly marrying them to Muslim men. The Indian government was not as quick or as brave as was Tapan Ghosh who, on his own, began re-kidnapping these girls back to India, returning them to their families and/or finding new families for them. I interviewed him in 2010 about this. (Read the article here)

My dear friend Dr. Michelle Harrison, who founded an orphanage for severely disabled girls in Calcutta, confirmed the existence of Muslim criminal gangs who trafficked drugs and women — and horror of horrors — stole cows, probably to eat them.

Real Genocide, Yes. UN Resolution Against It, No.

A real genocide in Pakistan? And no UN Resolution about it? Well, Deepti Mahajan has documented the “steep decline in the population of Pakistan’s Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs that has plummeted from 23 percent in 1947 to three percent today … the result is the almost complete physical destruction of these religious groups.”

Pakistan, an Islamic Republic, is not only cruel to religious minorities, aka infidels. It is also cruel to Muslims, even to Pakistani Muslims. There is one high-profile exception: Pakistan is the country that hid Bin Laden in Abbottabad for years while America was fruitlessly hunting for him in nearby Afghanistan.

However, Pakistan is also cruel to Muslims from other Islamic countries. For example: In 2023, Pakistan began expelling Afghan refugees back to the Taliban. For complex reasons, many Afghans believed that Pakistan would allow them to stay; some were there awaiting to be transferred to Western countries which had promised the Afghans asylum.

Pakistan is also the country in which Malala Yousefzai was shot in the head for supporting education for girls and women. Otherwise, countless girls and women in Pakistan are honor killed with absolutely no “accountability or transparency.”

My partner, Mandy Sanghera, and I told about 15 Afghan women to get themselves out, either to Pakistan or Iran because Spain had promised to relocate them if they got into a country outside of Afghanistan. Spain lied — or changed its mind — and there they’ve been stuck since 2021. We are haunted by them.

Deepti Mahajan understands that the UNHRC will do nothing, but she wants to put the matter of a real genocide “on record and to use it for narrative building.” Mahajan finds the plight of these religious minorities in Pakistan “heartrending. They are literally forgotten and powerless.” She implores the citizens of the world to sign this Complaint which will be made available on March 8th but which you may read here.

President Trump: Really, why don’t we just pull out of the United Nations? Let them take their corruption and their Jew-hatred to Qatar or even to Afghanistan, where their resolutions will be more in line with that country’s views.