Tuesday, January 25, 2011

So-called UN Human Rights Council including its member the US, ignores human rights violations. Ros-Lehtenin to examine.

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1/23/11, "The World from The Hill: U.N. funding an early target for House Republicans," The Hill, B. Johnson

"Over the past five years, the council has produced about 45 resolutions, he (Hillel Neuer, executive director of Geneva-based UN Watch) said,
  • 35 which are "one-sided measures against Israel."
"One of the most significant tools has been used to wallop Israel over the head and not to promote peace," Neuer said,
  • lamenting that the U.S. and allied nations haven't pulled together to trigger emergency
  • sessions on crises such as the crackdown on democracy demonstrators in Iran
or abuses against Tibetans or Uighurs by China.

As to why the U.S. hasn't acted in that capacity at the council, "I know there's political answers to that but
New House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen "sounded another warning shot at the U.N. on Friday, criticizing the "irony" of the director of the investigations division of the U.N.’s internal oversight office, Michael Dudley,

via American Thinker

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