Syria, Iran to run for U.N. Human Rights Council: envoys
Syria, Iran to run for U.N. Human Rights Council: envoys
By :Louis Chabonneau for Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria and Iran are planning to run for a spot on the U.N. Human Rights Council later this year, U.N. diplomats told Reuters on Wednesday, despite criticism from watchdog groups about widespread rights abuses in both countries.
The General Assembly's annual elections for the United Nations' 47-nation Geneva-based human rights body will be held later this year in New York. There will be 14 seats available for three-year terms beginning in January 2014.
From the so-called Asia group, which includes the Middle East and Asia, seven countries - China, Iran, Jordan, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Vietnam - are vying for four seats, U.N. diplomats said on condition of anonymity.
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/syria-iran-run-u-n-human-rights-council-195915259.html
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Most of the applicants would be obvious choices for that corrupt bullshit organization.
I assumed that "Entertainment-Humour" was the right category in which to post this article.
When I saw the title of the article, I was sure it was from ''The Onion''...LMAO, this is very difficult to take as a serious article. Sadly it is true...
I think you put it in the proper category "Entertainment-Humour" without a doubt, but in today's world anything is possible, maybe the "Onion" would have been a better place for it to be.
Well... at least in the U.N.'s world . .
Well, it is filed in Humor. Maybe not laughing in the Ha Ha sense, though.
Would you trade the human rights you have in America or Canada for those in most Middle East countries?
Really amazing that they would even be in consideration...
Why is it amazing? What else would you expect from a corrupt biased organization?
Wouldn't have been a problem if it was in the Onion Six. Then everyone would know it was just really broad sarcastic humor. The problem is that this isn't sarcasm at all. It's straight news and that is scary.
The UN is losing its credibility by leaps and bounds. Canada has seen it and acted accordingly. Most of the rest of the world caters and panders to the Arab oil countries, and act like cocksuckers in the UN (DON'T pardon my French).
The UN actually had credibility? I'm shocked.
Yes, TTGA, it used to have credibility. When the Partition resolution, created a sanctuary for the Jews in their ancient homeland, it had credibility. When Canada's late Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson started the UN Peacekeeper Force it had credibility. But now it's like a dead fish left for a week on the shore, seething with maggots.
So true.
The only thing about it that I think is useful is WHO (World Health Organization). All the rest are bullshit - even the peacekeepers have become useless - Ask General Romeo Dellaire who wrote "Shake Hands With the Devil".
I don't know if it's my computer or where I am, but nothing shows up in your reply, Kavika.
Damn it, it's was there, now it's gone. This has happen to be a couple of times lately Buzz.
I just wanted to comment on the peacekeepers. They are nothing but walking targets. It is a no win situation for them.
I did read Dellaire's, ''Shake Hands With the Devil''...
The UN is turning into a seething, stench filled brothel. It's the place to go to prostitute, and be prostituted.
This is merely more of the continual rubbish that keeps falling outta the back door.
Buzz,
Sometimes it helps if you hit Control and F5. That reboots the whole page and sometimes causes things to straighten out.
Actually I believe it works if you just hit F5 ("Refresh") even without Ctrl. (The page you are viewing reloads).
Especially since, in areas of highly likely conflict, the only real thing that restrains the armies are bigger armies, or at least the threat of them. The guys with the blue helmets are supposed to be the trigger for larger action. If everyone knows that the larger action will not take place, the peacekeepers have no protection at all.
I am reminded of the military talks prior to WWI. The British Government was on the fence about participation. When the British Chief of Staff asked the French Chief of Staff how many British soldiers the French would need in France immediately, the French General said, "Just one, and we'll see to it that he gets killed".