Posted on 10/16/2019 6:51:57 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The United Nations Human Rights Council has been a bad joke for a long time, with many of the world’s worst human rights abusers honored with membership. But tomorrow we will see the reductio ad absurdum, as Mauritania is voted onto the Human Rights Council.
While the Mauritanian government officially denies that slavery is ongoing in the country, Mauritanian watchdog groups allege that one out of every two members of the country’s Haratine ethnic minority group are enslaved, and that as many as 20% of the population is enslaved. The exact number of slaves within the country is unclear, and estimates range from 90,000 to 500,000. The Global Slavery Index estimates more than 140,000 people are currently enslaved in the country.
Slavery persisted in Africa long after it was abolished elsewhere, and Mauritania is, one could say, the last pro-slavery holdout. In Mauritania, as has so often been the case, lighter-skinned Arabs own darker-skinned Africans. So what better candidate for the U.N.’s Human Rights Council could there be? There may be a more useless and corrupt organization than the United Nations somewhere in the world, but it isn’t easy to think what it might be.
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The U.N. is the trade association for dictators.
Hey, as long as they support the important stuff -- gender dysphoria, infanticide, gun confiscation -- they're golden.
UN staff are overpaid to attend worthless meetings. Who else attends the meetings is of little concern. Denmark or Mauritania, it hardly matters. So long as the salary, housing-allowance, car-allowance and per diem keep rolling in.
Who cares what the U.N. thinks? They are nothing but a bunch of backslapping antisemites who would just as soon screw the U.S. as occupy some exclusive U.S. real estate.
/bingo
U.S. out of U.N.! Enough is enough but I have a feeling the U.N. will be around long after the end of what is currently the U.S.A.
Don’t tell our Left.
They won’t care one hoot anyway.
I’m glad things haven’t changed since Harry P. Flashman was there last.
The OIC’s “UN” would agree with you.
The UN needs to move to a third world hellhole...
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