The Proud Record Of The UN Human Rights Council
From Publius Pundit:
Could Amnesty International possibly have been wrong when it declared “a new beginning for human rights” back in May 2006? No, it’s a new beginning alright. It’s an era of greater protection for human rights violators and back-patting for the insane leftists who supported its creation! Everyone wins! (Except the victims, but who are they, really?) In nearly a year, here is a brief list of some of the Human Rights Council’s greatest accomplishemnts:
* Successfully condemned one country only, Israel.
* Repeat the above seven more times.
* Voted on June 30, 2006, to review Israeli human rights abuses at every council session.
* While investigating the Israeli-Hezbollah war, it announced that, “the Commission is not entitled, even if it had wished, to construe [its charter] as equally authorizing the investigation of the actions by Hezbollah in Israel.” No bias here.
* Cuba is mounting a campaign to eliminate the council’s ability to even investigate human rights.
What’s troubling is that this embarrassing list is the result of the corrupt, morally bankrupt world body that America’s liberal left would like to see guide America’s foreign policy in the middle east once they’re through forcing us to lose the war in Iraq. And that should trouble us all, given that the UN puts the world’s worst human rights violators on the human rights council, can’t seem to find any humans rights violations that don’t involve the US and Israel, and routinely services as little more than an amplification tool for the world’s worst tyrants and dictators.
