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Seven decades later, how does the UN live up to the vision and resolve of its founders?

An event this evening at Stanford University is a sobering reminder that some of what is said and done today in the name of the UN would cause Roosevelt and Churchill to roll in their graves.

The human rights clinic of the law faculty, headed by Professor James Cavallaro, a former Human Rights Watch activist, has decided to give its platform, in the form of a public lecture and reception, to Richard Falk, a UN expert and former Princeton academic.

While he appears highly qualified and is well versed in the language of human rights, the reality is that Falk’s twisted moral vision negates the UN founders’ dream, recasting tyrants, terrorists and teachers of hatred as heroic victims resisting colonialist oppression.

As the world focuses on the Iranian government’s mad race for a nuclear bomb, and its brutal repression of peaceful student activists, Stanford’s human rights scholars ought to recall that Falk was a key promoter of this regime’s establishment.

Days after Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in 1979, Falk reassured the world, in a New York Times op-ed titled “Trusting Khomeini,” that “the depiction of him as fanatical, reactionary and the bearer of crude prejudices seems certainly and happily false.”

Khomeini’s entourage, wrote Falk, had “a notable record of concern for human rights.” Indeed, the ayatollah’s “new model of popular revolution” offered the world “a desperately-needed model of humane governance for a third-world country.”

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UNICEF says Santa is a Eurocentric, western, white-privileged male

UNICEF's new ad makes Santa out to be an uncompassionate, mean-spirited westerner, contemptuous of the suffering of  the Third World, while portraying themselves as the good guys. That might go over better if UNICEF wasn't an appendage of the UN, the most incompetent, corrupt organization in the world.

With more ads like these, the rest of us might become more indifferent to the 3rd World too.

If you're looking for a good cause to give a donation this season, consider the NGO UN Watch, which works to protect human rights while exposing the deceit and hypocrisy that goes on at The United Nations.




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Some comedy from the UN "Human Rights" Council

Some of the worst human rights abusers in the world share their thoughts:


IRAN

"It is my honor to represent a country whose respect for women and the dignity of women is rooted in its ideological beliefs and cultural past... [However, there is] persisting and rife discrimination and violence against women, in particular, in France, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, Luxembourg and Ireland."


SYRIA

"There are certain situations where women's physical make-up must be taken into consideration when enacting laws. Women, [it] must not be imposed on them certain heavy work, such as working in mines and other hard labor."


SAUDI ARABIA

"Islamic Sharia has granted women the same rights as men on the basis of principle."






From UN Watch

UN "Human Rights" Council Floatilla Probe: “even if Bin Laden himself were on the Mavi Marmara, Israel’s blockade would still be illegal.”

Everything coming out of the politically motivated council's pre-determined inquiry into the flotilla raid in June by Israeli forces intercepting the flotilla attempting to violate the sea blockade of Gaza shows the need to scrap the UN as a serious decision making body and replace it with a League of Democracies, as suggested by John McCain and others.

GENEVA, Sept. 28 - The U.N. commission into Israel’s May 31 flotilla clash declared during a U.N. Human Rights Council debate today that “even if Bin Laden himself were on the Mavi Maramara, Israel’s blockade would still be illegal.”

The statement was made by commissioner Desmond de Silva in response to questions posed in the council plenary by the Geneva-based UN Watch as to why the probe ignored voluminous evidence it submitted regarding the stated intentions of the Islamist flotilla members to physically confront Israel and become “Shahids,” or martyrs.

The chair of the flotilla probe, Judge Karl T. Hudson-Phillips, said that he had never heard the term “Shahid” before. However, he insisted that, in any event, the intentions of the IHH activists carried no legal relevance.

Some international lawyers disagree. “It is astonishing that the UN panel now openly admits to disregarding our evidence as to the violent, Jihadist and suicidal intentions of the IHH militants on the Mavi Marmara,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.

“That the head of the probe said he never heard the word ‘Shahid’ before today means that he never even looked at the numerous video testimonies and other compelling evidence that we submitted to his inquiry,” said Neuer

read the rest at the UN Watch website

Libya welcomed into the UN Human Rights Council with denunciations from NGOs - clashes with USA over censorship

From UN Watch:
Geneva, September 20 — A week into its controversial new membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council, Libya clashed with the U.S. today after the representative of the Qaddafi regime lashed out at speeches by victims of Libyan abuses and requested that the council president delete their remarks from the record, which included a challenge to Libya's qualifications to serve on the UN's highest human rights body.

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