News Brief: The U.N., What Credibility?
It the UN folding to pressure? One bad commission replaced by another and negotiating what as their ‘role’ for investigating human rights violations. Is this a smple PR scheme by the UN? Name the last five significant accomplishments by the UN in this century. Saying something nice or giving someone money does not count. Neither is saying there is something that needs to be corrected.
The only reason their human rights commission or the UN itself would have its credibility threatened is for a long history of corruption. What ever happened to Kofi Annan’s son and the oil for food program?
C. Harris
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New UN Human Rights Body Comes Under Fire
The initiative is threatening the UN’s credibility
On the heels of a well-received report on Darfur by the newly revamped UN Human Rights Council, the body is in danger of having its power stripped away. The EU says, give the council more time.
Cuba is leading a bid by a number of countries to strip the Human Rights Council of its power to investigate and condemn violations of human rights, a move some activists warn could jeopardize the entire UN’s credibility, the news agency Reuters reported.
The 47 member states of the new UN watchdog, which was set up last year to replace its discredited predecessor, are quietly negotiating a package of measures which will define its role.