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China joins U.N. human rights panel, will help pick experts on free speech, health, arbitrary detention
UN Watch ^ | Friday, April 3, 2020 1:37 am | unwatch

Posted on 04/03/2020 1:51:48 PM PDT by VAFreedom

GENEVA, April 2, 2020 — China was appointed on Wednesday to a United Nations Human Rights Council panel where it will play a key role in picking the world body’s human rights investigators — including global monitors on freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention — in a move that has sparked protest by international human rights activists.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china
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WTF, such a farce, waiting for them to draft Weinstein as the honorary ambassador to women
1 posted on 04/03/2020 1:51:48 PM PDT by VAFreedom
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To: VAFreedom

Good grief! Hypocrits!


2 posted on 04/03/2020 1:53:42 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: VAFreedom

Ya’ just can’t make this stuff up.


3 posted on 04/03/2020 1:54:20 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: VAFreedom

Let the felons be the judges.


4 posted on 04/03/2020 1:55:15 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: VAFreedom

This is a joke, right?


5 posted on 04/03/2020 1:56:08 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (There are only two genders.)
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To: Biggirl

Maybe its time to drop out of the UN and form a new organization: The “Anglosphere”: a union of all English Speaking countries.


6 posted on 04/03/2020 1:56:54 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Biggirl

Maybe its time to drop out of the UN and form a new organization: The “Anglosphere”: a union of all English Speaking countries.


7 posted on 04/03/2020 1:56:54 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: VAFreedom

Some things in this world on going to need some changing real soon ;/


8 posted on 04/03/2020 1:56:59 PM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: VAFreedom

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Someone thought this was a good idea eh?


9 posted on 04/03/2020 1:57:20 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: VAFreedom

No worse than Libya being the leader of the UN’s anti-terrorism task force.

There was another glaring infraction, but it doesn’t come to mind now.

The U. N. is a wicked enterprise.


10 posted on 04/03/2020 1:57:34 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: VAFreedom

And this is going to end well. GG /s


11 posted on 04/03/2020 1:59:18 PM PDT by cranked
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To: VAFreedom

LOL

Maybe Trump will kick them out of NYC in his 2nd term.

My cop friends used to say drugs and prostitutes were in big demand at the meetings


12 posted on 04/03/2020 1:59:36 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: VAFreedom

That headline looks like an April Fool’s joke.


13 posted on 04/03/2020 2:02:39 PM PDT by Savage Beast (There is no limit to the heights of heroism and saintliness to which people can ascend.)
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To: VAFreedom

We could, of course, use their headquarters on the East River as a COVID hospital.


14 posted on 04/03/2020 2:06:03 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: DoughtyOne

Oh that’s right.

I think it was Iraq in the old days directed to lead out on
rights for women.

LOL


15 posted on 04/03/2020 2:07:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: VAFreedom

Is this from the Babylon Bee or the Onion?


16 posted on 04/03/2020 2:08:36 PM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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This is a joke, right?

No, this is the UN.

17 posted on 04/03/2020 2:08:37 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Maybe its time to drop out of the UN and form a new organization: The “Anglosphere”: a union of all English Speaking countries.
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Leave out Canada, the UK, and New Zealand until they change their attitudes about transgenderism, Islam, gun rights, and a whole lot of other issues.


18 posted on 04/03/2020 2:09:04 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: VAFreedom

ok now they are just swear word with us


19 posted on 04/03/2020 2:12:27 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: VAFreedom
FFS 👎🙈
20 posted on 04/03/2020 2:13:10 PM PDT by hawkaw
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