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United Nations 2017 Human Rights Council promises to be the most ironic ever
michellemalkin.com ^ | 01/02/2017 | Doug Powers

Posted on 01/03/2017 1:30:43 PM PST by DFG

According to the United Nations’ Supreme Bureaucrat-in-Chief Ban Ki-moon, the purpose of that august body’s Human Rights Council is to serve as… …an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system made up of 47 States responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe. “All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights Council as a forum and a springboard for action.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hrc; powers; un
2017 UN Human Rights Council includes Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Iraq, and Venezuela.

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/CurrentMembers.aspx

Complete list and year their term expires:

Albania 2017 Bangladesh 2017 Belgium 2018 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2017 Botswana 2017 Brazil 2019 Burundi 2018 China 2019 Congo 2017 Côte d’Ivoire 2018 Croatia 2019 Cuba 2019 Ecuador 2018 El Salvador 2017 Ethiopia 2018 Georgia 2018 Germany 2018 Ghana 2017 Hungary 2019 India 2017 Indonesia 2017 Iraq 2019 Japan 2019 Kenya 2018 Kyrgyzstan 2018 Latvia 2017 Mongolia 2018 Netherlands 2017 Nigeria 2017 Panama 2018 Paraguay 2017 Philippines 2018 Portugal 2017 Qatar 2017 Republic of Korea 2018 Rwanda 2019 Saudi Arabia 2019 Slovenia 2018 South Africa 2019 Switzerland 2018 Togo 2018 Tunisia 2019 United Arab Emirates 2018 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2019 United States of America 2019 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2018

1 posted on 01/03/2017 1:30:43 PM PST by DFG
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To: DFG
GetUsOut banner
2 posted on 01/03/2017 1:32:04 PM PST by VitacoreVision
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To: VitacoreVision

All good guys, right?

Albania 2017
Bangladesh 2017
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2017
Botswana 2017
Burundi 2018
China 2019
Congo 2017
Côte d’Ivoire 2018
Cuba 2019
Ghana 2017
Indonesia 2017
Iraq 2019
Kyrgyzstan 2018
Nigeria 2017
Qatar 2017
Rwanda 2019
Saudi Arabia 2019
South Africa 2019
Togo 2018
Tunisia 2019
United Arab Emirates 2018
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2018


3 posted on 01/03/2017 1:41:56 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Higher Taxes, Less Freedom, More Bureaucracy! What could possibly go wrong?)
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North Korea must be upset that they’re not on that list. I wonder how many people they executed to further their civil rights campaign.


4 posted on 01/03/2017 1:51:11 PM PST by sig226
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In North Korea, they don’t execute them. They just allow them to starve to death. And they are on the edge of the invention of soilent green.

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5 posted on 01/03/2017 4:00:15 PM PST by Redwood71
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WHAT!?!?!? ISIS doesn’t have a seat on the council? I find it hard to take it seriously then.


6 posted on 01/03/2017 4:09:53 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: DFG

These Guys sound like Liberals, MSM is Dead, UN is Dead, he is Dead Jim..


7 posted on 01/03/2017 4:42:14 PM PST by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (------->VMFA 235 '69-'72 KMCAS <------- "Death Angels")
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Bill to Get U.S. Out of UN Introduced in New Congress

The New American
06 January 2017

Amid growing outrage about the UN, legislation to get the U.S. out of the UN and evict the scandal-plagued global body from the U.S. has been re-introduced in the new Congress.
8 posted on 01/07/2017 5:50:15 PM PST by VitacoreVision
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