Credibility Issue
Almost half of the 47 members of the United Nations' Human Rights Council are not "free democracies" (according to Freedom House rankings), and several, such as China, Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia, have been widely criticized as human rights violators. Consequently, the council has failed to address any of the most prominent rights abuses around the world (including some that were called genocide) in Sudan, North Korea, Chad, Zimbabwe and Iran, among other places, but in January, the council voted its 12th "condemnation" of Israel (out of only 13 condemnations it has ever issued). [Wall Street Journal, 1-29-08]
posted by unca | 2:56 PM
3 Comments:
This is why you hear from the far right that the UN is a joke and we should close it down.
I do agree with them about it being a joke sometimes but why would getting rid of it do any good?
We will always need one place where all nations can come together even for symbolic sake.
Plus who knows maybe it will become less of joke in the future if we keep the communication going.
I agree, blogball. I've never understood that either.
Well, I don't think we should get rid of it, either. I do think that every so often we need to do a reality check and this is a good example.
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