Posted on 06/21/2007 9:48:18 PM PDT by SmithL
GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- The European Union, heavily outnumbered by African and Asian members on the U.N. Human Rights Council, on Thursday defended a new accord governing the body that has been severely criticized by the United States.
The EU said it, too, regretted that Israel will be regularly singled out by the council and that special investigations of Cuba and Belarus were halted. But it said it accepted the accord as a "necessary compromise" in the hope that the council will have enough good features to be effective as a defender of human rights.
The council was created in March 2006 to replace the widely discredited and highly politicized Human Rights Commission. But it has been criticized for failing to change many of the commission's practices, including putting more emphasis on Israel than on any other country.
The United States opted against council membership a year ago because of what it saw as flaws in the makeup of the body. It has sat on the sidelines as an observer.
The EU said a major improvement over the commission is that every country will have to face regular examination of its performance in protecting human rights. Powerful nations like China and Russia were able to win support from other countries to avoid scrutiny by the commission,
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Nope!
What a joke. The UN is a gaping evil money pit.
I wonder if American libnuts even support this farce?
Every country does except those that don't. Makes sense, in a nonsensical way.
Not good policy, but at least the logic is logical.
“The UN is a gaping evil money pit.”
No it’s a mirror of world politics. So you could say the world politics are a gaping evil money pit. But that would be to banal to even waste a thought on - certainly it is.
If you don’t have the UN and it’s human rights platform you don’t have a platform to improve things.
If this was all joy and pleasure and nice people we would not need it.
Do you really think that the attitude of certain countries towards israel would change to the better WITHOUT a plattform that is - in the end - controlled by the western countries ?
It’s vital - not beautiful - but vital.
There must be a better way.
Costefficiency ?
doesn’t sound like a word I would expect to be used in this context.
How’d you measure it ?
Either they have a single day of effectiveness in their lifetimes - then it might be all worthwile in an instant.
Or they don’t
Then they failed and costs for their meetings don’t matter in comparison to the consequences.
“If you don’t have the UN and it’s human rights platform you don’t have a platform to improve things.”
Like, except for the UN, the UN is great!
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