The UN has, once again, proven itself a useless waste of space and money.
Reuters reported today on the first round of voting for the new UN Human Rights Council.
The United Nations elected 44 of the initial 47 members of its new Human Rights Council in a first round of voting on Tuesday, including five nations named by rights groups as among the world's worst abusers.
Russia, China, Cuba, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, identified by New York-based Human Rights Watch as unworthy of membership on the new U.N. body, were among those winning seats.
But two others on the group's list, Iran and Azerbaijan failed to win membership in the initial round of voting.
Oh, Iran didn't make it on the first try. What a shame! But that's OK. They still have a chance, because there are still three seats to be filled.
The new Human Rights Council is the replacement for the Human Rights Commission, which was shut down in March after having behaved too badly even for UN standards.
And where is the USA in all this voting?
The United States, an outspoken critic of the old human rights commission, voted against creating the council, arguing barriers were still too low to keep rights abusers from winning a seat. It then decided against seeking a seat this year.
I'm not sure what it will mean for us by not being on the Council. We may just become an easy target for them--business as usual for the UN.
3 comments:
Fortunately for everyone the UN is nothing more than a glorified soap box... that is, when they're not stealing and raping.
I want to elect a president that will completely ignore the United Nations... send no representatives and forbid the state department from dealing with it. (And give it none of my tax dollars) That would make me a happy man.
Chris,
With that kind of president, I'd be a happy woman too. Now, if that president also gave the UN a deadline to vacate our country, I'd be ecstatic.
I agree with you both (skyepuppy and Chris). I am tired of the U.N. pretending to be a healthy and desireable part of our foreign policy system. They are nothing more than a roadblock to real results.
I think it's definitely time to kick them out of the U.S. We don't need them.
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