Wednesday, March 26, 2008
To Sounds of Cheers, UN Human Rights Council Elects Khaddafi Prize Founder to Expert Post
UN Watch reports: To Sounds of Cheers, UN Human Rights Council Elects Khaddafi Prize Founder to Expert Post
Geneva, March 26, 2008 -- To the sound of cheers, and by an overhwelming majority of 40 out of 47 votes, the UN Human Rights Council today elected Jean Ziegler, the co-founder of the "Muammar Khaddafi Human Rights Prize," as an expert advisor representing the Western world. And for its new Palestine expert, the council chose Richard Falk, who, like Ziegler, accuses the U.S. of being responsible for many of the world's ills and describes Israel in Nazi terminology.
"Even within the benighted UN Human Rights council, today was a dark day for human rights," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based human rights monitoring agency. "The very credibility of the UN human rights system is now at stake."
Falk was approved by consensus. Canada afterward made a statement dissociating itself from the choice. The U.S., a non-voting observer, also took the floor to criticize Falk's published writings.
Ziegler, criticized by many for his performance as former UN expert on the right to food, earned more votes than any of the other candidates. Immediately after the vote, Swiss ambassador Blaise Godet left his seat, and, in front of all the diplomats in the plenary, walked over to warmly shake hands with the Cuban ambassador, both smiling as they congratulated each other. The Castro regime chairs the all-powerful Non-Aligned Movement...
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"The very credibility of the UN human rights system is now at stake." No shi-ite. That train left the station decades ago. Yet, I still sign the useless petitions and send unread emails to legislators and heads of NGOs...not sure how much longer the charade can persist. Mightn't it not be better if we just bolted from the UN? McCain? Anybody? Please...
The US should sponsor a rule that requires the HRC to issue one resolution against some other country for every resolution they issue against Israel. As outrageous as that sounds, it would actually be far more fair than what actually goes on these days. What is it now, 14 resolutions against Israel compared to 1 against any other country (Burma)?