• Commission on Human Rights: Commission on Human Rights: By The Chronicle, Centralia, Wash. – December 21, 2004 Face it. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights is an unmitigated farce and the United States would do well to drop
• Commission on Human Rights:
Commission on Human Rights:
By The Chronicle, Centralia, Wash. – December 21, 2004
Face it. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights is an unmitigated farce and the United States would do well to drop its membership.
The Rights Commission is more inept and ineffective than even the United Nations itself, in many respects, if that’s possible. But worse, the Rights Commission is totally hypocritical.
A case in point is a report last week by a U.N. panel sponsored by Secretary-General Kofi Annan that rejected the proposal of any standards whatever for membership on the commission. One effect of that is that the country of Sudan in Africa will not lose its seat on the 53-member body even though Sudan is accused by the United States of committing genocide in its western Darfur province. More than 1 million black Africans have been uprooted from their homes by government-backed Arab militias. …
There’s more: The commission is expected next year to seek to prohibit the introduction of resolutions aimed at specific countries for human rights violations. The commission could do little more than approve resolutions condemning religious persecution or suppression of labor without identifying perpetrators. …
We don’t blame Danforth for stepping down from his post after just four months, partly out of frustration with the United Nations.