1948 to 2008: The State of Human Rights at the United Nations (UN Watch):
The council is dominated today by an alliance of repressive regimes, including China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia, that has acted systematically to undermine and erode core principles and effective mechanisms created by the generation of Eleanor Roosevelt and those that followed.
Banned UN Speech: Human Rights Nightmare (by Hillel Neuer)
Faced with compelling reports from around the world of torture, persecution, and violence against women, what has the Council pronounced, and what has it decided?
Nothing. Its response has been silence. Its response has been indifference. Its response has been criminal.
[AA] it doesn't stop here: Gadhafi's son creating Mideast human-rights body
[AA] Bottomline:
- the world at large is run by governments which fall short of upholding basic human rights
- Ben Franklin once said "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch."
- democratic international institutions will inevitably empower the wolves that want to guard the sheep
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