Posted on 05/02/2014 12:53:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Friday became a formal party to five global treaties banning torture and racial discrimination, and protecting the rights of women, children and the disabled, the UN said, according to AFP.
Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN human rights office, told reporters that the move followed the PAs April 2 declaration to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that they were adopting the treaties.
In addition, the PA will on May 7 become party to an accord protecting children in conflict zoneswhich is an optional part of the overall child rights treatyand on July 2 it will adopt two agreements governing civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.
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This inclusion of slavers, polygamists, and torturers
will make all five International treaties a joke.
I haven’t looked at all the signatories, but it’s likely that the “Palestinians” are the worst of a bad bunch. Typical of UN treaties.
After reading just the headline, and knowing our leadership, I had to wonder if one of the treaties was with NATO. /S
Raze the UN. We could build some nice apartments there and still have room for a park.
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