Obama Joins Human-Rights Charade
The United States is participating in a risible U.N. sideshow.

by Anne Bayefsky
National Review Online
April 2, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/249/obama-joins-human-rights-charade

Excerpt:

 Pres. Barack Obama has announced that the United States will seek a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council for the first time. The formal election of new members is in May, but the result is a foregone conclusion. The human-rights abusers who dominate the Council and use it to protect themselves, to eliminate universal standards, and to demonize their democratic foes are already celebrating. 

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The Council has sabotaged the key resolution in the U.N. system on freedom of expression. The resolution now requires investigation of "abuses of the right of freedom of expression" . Most Council members do not permit freedom of expression, much less suffer from the abuse of it.

The Council regularly adopts resolutions on the "defamation of religions," an overt attempt by Islamic states to stymie free speech of individuals in the name of protecting "religion."

The Council has made repeated efforts to circumvent universal principles. It has spawned numerous entities charged with searching for "normative gaps" — with the intention of filling them with sharia exemption clauses.

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