Let’s mark this on our calendars: this admission of un-intelligent behaviour made by the quite clearly un-virtuous U.N. Secretary-General’s underling, as they come to grips with the fact that Cuba and Sudan and Saudi Arabia and such are on their…. now get ready for this…. U.N. Human Rights Committee!
Apparently only conservatives in America knew this. And me and my 14 conservative friends in Canada.
This sort of behavior has been going on for countless years at the U.N. They’re only just figuring it out now. That’s problem number 831 for liberals.
U.N. Reaches out to win back middle America
The United Nations is out of touch with most Americans, who think the beleaguered organization has abandoned its mission to keep peace and protect human rights around the world, says U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s chief of staff.
“In a very real way, we seem to have lost touch with the great middle in America, a middle which very much believes in the aspirational ideas of the U.N. … and who feel that we’ve drifted away from a commitment to human rights, a commitment to help the poor of the world,” Mark Malloch Brown said yesterday.
The United Nations is under fire for several scandals including the oil-for-food program, charges of sexual abuse by U.N. peacekeeping forces and the resignation of a top official accused of sexual harassment, which Mr. Malloch Brown addressed in an exclusive interview with “Fox News Sunday.”
The organization will propose changes in the coming weeks to begin repairing its reputation by revamping its “human rights machinery” to keep dictator nations off the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
Governments making up the current membership include Cuba, Sudan, Zimbabwe and Saudi Arabia. Libya is the outgoing chair of the Committee.
The plan would “try and restore the credibility of this and have people on that commission who really are people of stature and reputation and record and come from countries of the same thing, with real human rights standing in the world,” Mr. Malloch brown said.
Human rights groups say rights violators on the commission stick together as a bloc to prevent criticism of one another — a conclusion that has been endorsed by a panel of experts advising Mr. Annan on U.N. Reform. […]
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