Posted on 10/18/2017 10:43:58 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The latest election of some of the world's worst human rights abusing countries to serve on the Council does not hold out any hope of real reform
The United Nations General Assembly on Monday elected 15 member states to the UN Human Rights Council for the 2018-2020 term, including such notorious human rights abusers as Qatar, Angola, Pakistan, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Member states considered eligible for membership on the Human Rights Council are theoretically supposed to be able to demonstrate their commitment to the highest standards of human rights and their full cooperation with all UN mechanisms, including the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Special Procedures and treaty bodies and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. These countries fall woefully short of such standards.
Over 70% of the women in prison in Pakistan are there because they were raped.
At least the UN is consistent. Consistently wrong.
Harvey Weinstein would have been Hillary’s ambassador to the UN.
and Roman Polansky would have been Secretary of Education, too.
Close them down. Kick them out of the USA. Don’t give these thieves a dime.
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