it's their turn... right???
Posted on 10/16/2017 3:26:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The United States and human rights groups sharply criticized Monday’s U.N. election for 15 new members of the Human Rights Council, singling out conflict-torn Congo’s victory despite accusations of serious rights abuses and an investigation by the U.N.’s top human rights body.
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley called the election “yet another example of why the Human Rights Council lacks credibility and must be reformed in order to be saved.”
Haley previously dangled the possibility that the United States could quit the council during a visit to its Geneva headquarters in June, when she lambasted the 47-nation body as a “forum for politics, hypocrisy and evasion” that allows rights abusers to whitewash their images and foes of Israel to criticize the Jewish state unfairly.
In a statement after the 193-member General Assembly voted Congo onto the Human Rights Council as part of an uncontested African slate for a three-year term starting Jan. 1, Haley said the rights organization “cannot endure many more blows to its credibility before it is rendered absolutely meaningless.”
Haley called Congo “a country infamous for political suppression, violence against women and children, arbitrary arrest and detention, and unlawful killings and disappearances” and said its unopposed election is another spur to U.S.-led efforts to reform the Human Rights Council. …
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T Y P I C A L
By secret ballot, Libya elected chair of UN human rights commission (2003)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=5924
Iran wins seat on U.N. body that presses for women’s rights (2014)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/25/iran-wins-seat-un-body-presses-womens-rights/
Human Rights Council= code for butchers!
De-fund and kick the UN out of the country.
Do we need any further proof that we need to dump this corrupt cesspool and get it out of our country? Let them move their operations to Ongo Bongo, snipe at Israel all day, eat a lot of lavish food and pass a bunch of malicious antisemitic “resolutions”-—without a dime of our money and without NYC to double park in, have drunken incidents in, and otherwise abuse. Hopefully they will all die of obesity or STDs and come to an end without a whimper, for all the good they do.
I like what we just did.
First Trump promotes strong nationalism from the floor or the U. N. (about two weeks later, a young nationalist is voted in to Austria’s top spot)
Then he pulls us out of U.N.E.S.C.O.
Pretty good one two punch there.
Point is, neutering it may be the best way to address it.
As it becomes weaker, we can tweak things even more.
I am concerned about us giving up our ability to use our veto there.
Dropping out is something I’ve advocated for decades. It may not be a good idea. Sometimes you can shoot yourself in the foot by implementing your desires.
US out of the UN, UN out of the US.
Isn’t that the place where a woman and her son were brutally killed a couple of days ago for messing up the bean recipe?
And they’ll be voting on recommendations for US civil conduct?
Bwahahaha.
Like UNESCO, the next U.N. agency the U.S. should pull out of and not fund.
One by one we should cut off everything at the U.N. till we are down to the dysfunctional but geopolitically useful Security Council, where at least we have a veto.
Yes it is the same place=——boggles the mind.
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Human Rights Abuses are a requirement to get on the council at this crazy UN
I think that’s probably a good idea.
Some of these things you have to do and see how they turn out. It would take a lot of thought for each one, thinking of all the angles that might come back to haunt us.
it's their turn... right???
Didn’t they hack a women to death after they forced her to have sex with her son and then some of them drank her blood?, that congo? The UN is a cesspool that needs to be pushed into the east river
Pretty sure they eat people there, and not getting eaten is a fundamental human right.
We are pretty close to allowing outright savages to rule over us.
Go Trump.
Is Congo taking Iran’s place on the “human rights council”? Or maybe Venezuela’s? Or Zimbabwe’s? Or China’s? Or ..... the list goes on.
Get the U.S. out of the U.N.
Get the U.N. out of the U.S.
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