UN to release Report Praising Libya's Human Rights Record

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As the United Nations works feverishly to condemn Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi for cracking down on protesters, the body's Human Rights Council is poised to adopt a report chock-full of praise for Libya's human rights record.

The review commends Libya for improving educational opportunities, for making human rights a "priority" and for bettering its "constitutional" framework. Several countries, including Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia but also Canada, give Libya positive marks for the legal protections afforded to its citizens -- who are now revolting against the regime and facing bloody reprisal.

The U.S. mission in Geneva said it would look into the status of the document in response to a question about whether any efforts are being made to cancel or postpone consideration of the report. But an agenda put out by the United Nations in January said the Human Rights Council, of which Libya has been a member since last year, will "consider and adopt" the document at its session underway this month.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02 ... ts-record/

And people wonder why so many Conservatives in the US have a problem with the United Nations.

Unbelievable! Oh well, it seems like whatever report comes out of the UN's Human Rights Council depends on who's on it. It isn't objective, it merely serves a political objective.

The U.N. has degenerated into a third world kaffe kl.atch. It is just about time for the U.S. to stop paying the freight and send the U.N. packing offshore. Then demolish the U.N. building on 42 nd st.

It will be a great sacrifice. The third world parasites who work for the U.N. owe the city of New York millions in parking fines unpaid because they have diplomatic immunity.

ruveyn

Yes! Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.

Well, given that the composition of the UNHRC, we should hardly be surprised.

But that being said, is it wrong to give credit where credit is due? After all, are the protests currently gripping Libya the result of greater human rights extended to its population by the regieme?

Oh, ruveyn? Very few G4's have immunity. The Secretary General does, as do, of course, all of the members of the permanent missions to the UNO (except the US mission, of course). But UNO staffers only have immunity to the same extent that US citizen employees of the UNO do--they cannot be compelled to testify before the courts of the receiving state about their work, but they are certainly compellable to appear before the courts of the receiving state to answer civil and criminal cases.

Damn right. And after it is leveled, build a Starbucks/Walmart/Shooting Range strip mall.

We should

1. get out of that corrupt third world kaffe klatch
2. send them packing out of the country
3. collect the parking fines owed to NYC by the U.N. delegates who illegally park protected by diplomatic immunity.

ruveyn

Last edited by ruveyn on 11 Mar 2011, 11:43 am, edited 1 time in total.

Correct. Get rid. And get rid of WHO and the EU too. We never voted for any of these parasites.