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‘Free’ Countries Once Again a Minority on U.N. Human Rights Council
NEW YORK - This year’s election for the U.N. Human Rights Council has, once again, produced a body that has fewer “free” countries – 21 of a total of 47 – and has more than one-third of the seats held by members of the Islamic bloc.
Among the 15 countries to win seats on the Geneva-based HRC on Friday was Congo, which joins 11 other countries ranked “not free” by the democracy advocacy group, Freedom House, based on an annual assessment of political freedoms and civil liberties.
Nonetheless, rights advocates did find some cause for cheer: In the only two regional groups to see any contest, Latin America and Eastern Europe, countries ranked “free” by Freedom House defeated candidates scoring a “partly free” grade.
In Latin America, Nicaragua’s leftist regime was edged out in a four-way race for three seats, won by Peru, Chile and Costa Rica; the Czech Republic and Romania beat Georgia in a three-way contest for two seats for the Eastern Europe group.
As expected, Kuwait secured the seat that Syria had been in line to win until President Bashar Assad withdrew his bid last week, after initially supportive Arab and Asian states bowed to pressure from Western governments and non-governmental activists. (Even though Syria was not standing, five countries still voted for it on Friday.)
Every May for the past six years the U.N. General Assembly has held an “election” to fill a proportion of seats on the 47-member HRC, the world body’s foremost human rights watchdog.
With the exception of the inaugural vote in 2006, the procedure has been marred by “closed slates,” where regional groups endorse the same number of countries as there are seats available, thus precluding any contest.
Despite the requirement that governments take into account candidates’ human rights records, the General Assembly – voting under secret ballot – has ushered onto the council a total of 19 “not free” countries, some more than once.
In most cases, they obtained votes well in excess of the 97 required in the 192-member General Assembly.
The 19, along with the number of votes they scored, are: China (won two elections, with vote counts of 146 and 167), Russia (137, 146), Cuba (135, 163), Saudi Arabia (126, 154), Libya (155), Egypt (168), Pakistan (149, 114), Algeria (168), Tunisia (171), Mauritania (167), Bahrain (172), Qatar (170, 177), Jordan (178), Angola (172, 170), Cameroon (171, 142), Gabon (178), Kyrgyzstan (174), Azerbaijan (103) and newcomer Congo (176).
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/free-countries-once-again-minority-un-hu
What a sick, pathetic joke of an organization dedicated to world peace. Anytime someone questions something like this these pieces of shit play deaf, blind and dumb. Go ahead and keep pouring billions of dollars a year into this, USA! At least Bush had the common sense to keep the US off this embarrassment whereas Obama was all too eager to hop on board with the world's worst violators of human rights.
Congrats, dictators, despots and tyrants!
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The un has long outlived itself.
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The un has long outlived itself.
I wish I could ask Ron Paul whether he would keep the US in it or take us out if he were elected. I'd probably vote for the guy on that issue alone if he said he'd take us out.
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I think he hates the un.
The endless Israel and USA bashing is ridiculous.
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I think he hates the un.
The endless Israel and USA bashing is ridiculous.
Here's what he had to say in 2003 about it:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul82.html
He's 100% spot-on. I doubt his position has changed since.
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The original idea was good I suppose, but it has morphed into welfare for anti American despots.
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The original idea was good I suppose, but it has morphed into welfare for anti American despots.
The League of Nations went the same route. It's impossible to avoid when you let everyone in. The tyrants and despots outnumber the free, first-world countries. The OIC has a stranglehold on it right now and the Human Rights Council (which was already shut down once because it was hijacked by the guys it was set up to stop) is back to being a disgustingly useless piece of shit.
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You guys are just being ignorant. The international community is our community. We are the world. George Bush was the enemy. For America to survive there must be an end to all borders and wall street bonuses.
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UN is a good crutch for giving us the power/justification to invade countries when we want to. ;)
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You guys are just being ignorant. The international community is our community. We are the world. George Bush was the enemy. For America to survive there must be an end to all borders and wall street bonuses.
End Wall Street bonuses? Yes please
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It's amazing we still have people on this board arguing for the UN.
What the fuck has to happen before we drop out of this dipshit organization?
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Ron Paul would get us out of the UN as soon as possible. He is anti- world government and has spoken out against the UN time and time again. The UN is just the globalists method to institute world government
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The UN has some positive uses. However, it's overly inclusive, bloated ideals have stalled progress on real issues.
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The UN has some positive uses. However, it's overly inclusive, bloated ideals have stalled progress on real issues.
Name three that are actually used today for positive purposes.
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Name three that are actually used today for positive purposes.
Oil for food scam, beating millions in tickets, and having immunity for most crimes.
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Name three that are actually used today for positive purposes.
UNICEF, WHO and WFP. They aren't perfect but they do make a difference in a lot of lives.
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UNICEF, WHO and WFP. They aren't perfect but they do make a difference in a lot of lives.
Hahahahaha. Complete wastes of time, money and resources....just like every other organization within the UN.
Oil for food scam, beating millions in tickets, and having immunity for most crimes.
You forgot "genocide". Hi, Darfur and Rwanda!
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Hahahahaha. Complete wastes of time, money and resources....just like every other organization within the UN.
You forgot "genocide". Hi, Darfur and Rwanda!
Millions of people would disagree.