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US leaving UN Human Rights Council -- 'a cesspool of political bias'
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, accusing the body of bias against US ally Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers accountable. The move, which the Trump administration has threatened for months, came down one day after the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed the separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border as "unconscionable."
Speaking from the State Department, where she was joined by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Haley defended the move to withdraw from the council, saying US calls for reform were not heeded. "Human rights abusers continue to serve on, and be elected to, the council," said Haley, listing US grievances with the body. "The world's most inhumane regimes continue to escape its scrutiny, and the council continues politicizing scapegoating of countries with positive human rights records in an attempt to distract from the abusers in its ranks."
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday June 20 2018, @11:20PM (5 children)
You really want to go there? You really want to say there are only twenty-six unfree shitholes? Since I can probably pull more than that from only the OIC list, mind if I just point and laugh at you instead of expending the effort to compile a listing? Then I can point at laugh at you again for your inability to comprehend English.
When the U.N. was designed and founded it was designed to give unfree hellholes the majority of the votes, i.e. to be a Parliament of Tyrants, Legion of Doom, League of Villains, whatever you want to call it. Little has changed since as most of the voting membership are what could be called "Evil." Most of what the U.N. does is Evil, from the rape and pillage that goes on under the cloak of the blue helmets in war torn countries to the rampant graft and corruption that is the hallmark of every single U.N. Agency.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @12:11AM (2 children)
"Show us on the doll, jmorris, where the evil UN touched you. It's OK, this is a safe space."
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @09:02AM (1 child)
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:32PM
I can't get all the coffee off of my monitor. Would you mind wiping from your side? :^)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:28AM (1 child)
Kinda like the United States, where small population shitholes of states get more say per capita in elections for National office than the real producing states with larger populations.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:35PM
Define "real producing states" for us. Should we take that to mean you perform more abortions? More murders? More scandals? More corruption? Or, just that your phat broads drop more babies (mostly on their heads)? Or, maybe you mean those states produce more idiots like yourself?