Recently I seem to be blogging quite a lot about the failings of the United Nations but that is only because it is an organisation that has a serious problem. That problem is (that outside of the security council) it gives equal weight to the views of large democratic countries such as the USA, UK, Germany & France, large undemocratic countries such as China & Russia and countries run by despots or extremely unpleasant regimes such as Libya, Cuba, North Korea, Saudi Arabia & Iran. The existence of a large Arab/Muslim bloc in Asia has also meant that the United Nations has had a large number of unpleasant countries on its committees.
UN Watch's Hillel Neuer has lead the way in exposing the election of countries such as Libya to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and Iran to the Panel of Women's Rights' UN Watch managed to get Libya thrown off of the UNHRC Committee but has failed in another matter that has received less publicity. UN Watch report that:
In this instance the United Nations was happy to have as the UN Human Rights Council investigator on human rights violations by mercenaries a Libyan diplomat Najat Al-Hajjaji who has acted as a loyal propagandist for the Gaddafi regime for decades, shielding its brutal crimes by portraying the dictator as a human rights champion. A champion who has, and is, using mercenaries to attck the protesters against his regime. I would say that this was ironic but I think this failure of the UN goes well beyond irony.
UN Watch's Hillel Neuer has lead the way in exposing the election of countries such as Libya to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and Iran to the Panel of Women's Rights' UN Watch managed to get Libya thrown off of the UNHRC Committee but has failed in another matter that has received less publicity. UN Watch report that:
'GENEVA, March 10 - U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay today rejected growing calls to fire Ms. Najat Al-Hajjaji, a long-time representative of the Qaddafi regime, from her post as the UN Human Rights Council’s investigator on human rights violations by mercenaries, which many see as a cruel irony.The United Nations is no longer fit for purpose, it has become an organisation which (outside of the Security Council) is only concerned with censuring Israel & the West (especially the USA) and ignoring the manifold defects in other (mainly Muslim or communist) countries. The time has come for real democracies to either reform the United Nations, although I do not see how, or stop paying for an organisation that relentlessly works to undermine them.
Objections to the Libyan’s U.N. position originated last week in Morocco’s Au Fait, and spread to Switzerland, Al-Hajjaji’s adopted home, in the Tribune de Geneve, 20minutes, and the Tages Anzeiger, as well as America’s Fox News and other newspapers and blogs.
However, Pillay, the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaking about Al-Hajjaji today in a discussion forum held on the sidelines of the council’s current session, said, “It is unfair to single her out.”'
In this instance the United Nations was happy to have as the UN Human Rights Council investigator on human rights violations by mercenaries a Libyan diplomat Najat Al-Hajjaji who has acted as a loyal propagandist for the Gaddafi regime for decades, shielding its brutal crimes by portraying the dictator as a human rights champion. A champion who has, and is, using mercenaries to attck the protesters against his regime. I would say that this was ironic but I think this failure of the UN goes well beyond irony.
No comments:
Post a Comment