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Fury after Saudi Arabia 'chosen to head key UN human rights panel'
timesofindia.indiatimes.com ^ | Sep 21, 2015, 02.46 PM IST | Tom Brooks Pollock,The Independent

Posted on 09/21/2015 8:04:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The United Nations has been criticised for handing Saudi Arabia a key human rights role - despite the country having "arguably the worst record in the world" on freedoms for women, minorities and dissidents.

Critics, including the wife of imprisoned pro-democracy blogger Raif Badawi - sentenced to 1,000 lashes for blogging about free speech - labelled the appointment "scandalous", saying it meant "oil trumps human rights".

Mr Badawi's wife, Ensaf Haidar, who is leading an international campaign to free her husband, said on Facebook that handing the role to Faisal bin Hassan Trad, Saudi Arabia's ambassador at the UN in Geneva, was effectively "a green light to start flogging [him] again".

UN Watch, an independent campaigning NGO, revealed Mr Trad, Saudi Arabia's ambassador at the UN in Geneva, was elected as chair of a panel of independent experts on the UN Human Rights Council.

As head of a five-strong group of diplomats, the influential role would give Mr Trad the power to select applicants from around the world for scores of expert roles in countries where the UN has a mandate on human rights.

Such experts are often described as the 'crown jewels' of the HRC, according to UN Watch, which has obtained official UN documents, dated 17 September, confirming the appointment.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hrc; humanrights; saudiarabia; unhrc

1 posted on 09/21/2015 8:04:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Sharia has reached theU.N.


2 posted on 09/21/2015 8:07:46 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama's Iran nuclear deal - The Devil is in the details.)
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To: BenLurkin

Liberal elites at the UN giving the finger to the world...


3 posted on 09/21/2015 8:08:50 AM PDT by GOPJ (Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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To: BenLurkin

The Bush family is deeply saddened by this condemnation of its patrons.


4 posted on 09/21/2015 8:12:27 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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To: BenLurkin

The United States must pull out of this decrepit organization, and we have to stop the growing tendency to view U.N. laws and mandates as superseding US law and the constitution.

Every Republican candidate must be compelled to address this issue.


5 posted on 09/21/2015 8:13:25 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: BenLurkin

It must be money. There is no logical answer other than money.


6 posted on 09/21/2015 8:15:36 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: BenLurkin

Brace for an epic wave of mind boggling evil in the world.


7 posted on 09/21/2015 8:33:16 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: BenLurkin

The UN is a joke, a sad warped joke.. with no punchline.


8 posted on 09/21/2015 8:58:57 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: BenLurkin
Why would we be upset? The UN is a self-serving communist anti-American entity and has been for years. We should have expelled them from America when we had the chance. As it stands, we're in the path of a juggernaut with no place to go.

Interesting that God (apparently) is using the same race of people to conquer and destroy the west that He used to conquer both the northern and southern kingdoms (in the Old Testament).

9 posted on 09/21/2015 9:01:29 AM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is anarchy.)
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To: BenLurkin
#ChristianLivesMatter ...but not in Saudi.

#WomenLivesMatter ..but not in Saudi

#GaylivesMatter ...but not in Saudi

10 posted on 09/21/2015 9:01:32 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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The sodomites own the UN— (Walid Shoebat stated that the Saudis prefer boys for sexual recreation—and hate and mutilate women—because of learned behavior/worldview). They have owned the UN since it’s inception—it is the NWO plan to impose a one world religion (Worldview) on the masses and destroy the Christian Worldview (Western Civilization/white race).

Why? Christians created individuality and the idea of Freedom and Individual Natural Rights from God. The sodomites want the boys-—always have, since before Zeus lusted after the beautiful boy, Ganymedes, and kidnapped him so he could rape him.

Those acts were celebrated in RELIGION then, and still are in muslim nations, and we now are forcing Vice in our military (bestiality and sodomy—muslim ethics). We are creating an evil Vice System and ridding the USA of their “Justice” (Queen of Virtue) System so we can normalize the muslim culture in our children to destroy Reason/Truth and Logic. If you can eliminate sexual morality (as homosexuality/sodomy does) you will collapse all culture when the children “learn” behavior.

As our troops are told when they go to these muslim nations—it is their “culture” to rape the little boys and dress them like girls and make them dance and entice the adults.

It is satanism v. God.

Satan took over SCOTUS with the abortion “ruling”-—promoting killing babies in a Just Law (LOL) and now with the pro-sodomy ruling.

UN was created by satanists/Lucifereans on purpose and it is just more of the same-old leaders-—who are raping and pillaging everywhere they go to make converts and spread refugees to wipe out Christian nations....no non-Christian nations take invaders who will destroy unity and cohesion (Christian ethics) in the nations they swarm into and allow government to promote abortions and no children, so they literally commit suicide so the Satanists can rule the World.


11 posted on 09/21/2015 9:20:22 AM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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