UN Human Rights Council

Only the UN could possibly come up with a plan to make the Human Rights Commission worse -- and more laughable -- than it is. Laughable implies a southparkian ability to laugh at genocide, corruption and continued poverty.

But the tough reformers on Turtle Bay seem to have found a worse scheme. The WSJ Ed Page sez: (Paid link)

The United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to vote tomorrow to establish the Human Rights Council, which is intended to replace its discredited Human Rights Commission. Amnesty International is for it, as is Secretary General Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, the European Union and most of the U.N.'s member states. So it all but goes without saying that the Council -- at least as it is currently conceived -- is a moral disaster waiting to happen.

Forty-seven member states will sit on the council (streamlined from a bloated 53) and geographic representation will ensure that Africa, Asia and the middle east will get a 26 seat majority between those bastions of democracy and human rights, while "the U.S. dukes it out with France, Malta and Luxembourg for a place at the table." No permanent members, so the US might be completely unrepresented.

These people cannot reform themselves -- let John Bolton and Claudia Rosset lock themselves in a room and redraw the UN Charter. This organization is far too corrupt to reform itself from within.

United Nations Posted by jk at March 14, 2006 10:04 AM