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Thursday, February 23, 2006

 

US threats over rights body-UN Hypocrisy Alert!



THE United States stunned UN officials and rights advocates today by threatening to reopen talks on a painfully negotiated resolution for a new UN Human Rights Council.

General Assembly President Jan Eliasson released a draft compromise text on the council to replace the discredited Geneva-based Human Rights Commission, which has included some of the world's worst rights violators.

The proposal sets a higher threshold for abusing nations to get a seat on the body and calls for a majority vote of all 191 General Assembly members, not just those present.

The United States and other Western nations had wanted about 30 members rather than the 47 proposed in the text as well as a two-thirds vote to make it harder for rights abusers, such as Zimbabwe or Sudan, to gain a seat.

US Ambassador John Bolton said he preferred "real" negotiations between governments rather than consultations with Mr Eliasson or his mediators.

The Australian
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In other words, the agreement as it is will still allow some of the worst abusers of human rights to sit on this council in judgment on cases of human rights abuse, cases that will often be occurring in their own countries.

This is just one more example of the sophistry inherent in the entire idea of the UN. The best metaphor of the UN is that of the fox guarding the hen house. The UN is a joke and has been since the day its deliberations began.

The more effective organization would be one of a confederation of democratic nations gathered together upon economic, defensive, and democratic principles. Further, the best way to arrive at representatives to the forum from each country would be to have at least a portion of the delegation run for election in their home nation and not to have them all appointed by their governments.

Anything less than that is truly a joke ... worse, a crime.

-Warner Todd Huston
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