Rogel @ April 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A new chapter in uncovering the true nature of the UN Human Right Mockery Council. This time its new appointee to special rapporteur on the “situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.”:
Falk’s conception of human rights—remember, this is what he is tasked to monitor for the UN—is also colored by his […]
Rogel @ April 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Since I already broke my rule about writing on UN issues I feel obligated to link to this post. It is always interesting to note what the UN Human Rights Mockery Council consider human rights. Freedom of speech isn’t one of them apparently:
So prohibiting dissemination of ideas based upon religious superiority “is compatible with the […]
Rogel @ March 27, 2008 # One Comment
I breaking my old decision not to right about the UN Human Rights Mockery Council, I simply can’t resist the irony:
Switzerland’s Jean Ziegler has been appointed to a United Nations advisory body for human rights.
He won most votes for the seat designated for western countries at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in […]
Rogel @ June 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I still remember the time when the Israeli economy was struggling with inflation rate of few hundred percent a year. I remember my parents struggling to keep up, to buy as soon as we had money and the amount we have still has some value. So when I read about the the currency crisis in Zimbabwe I have some […]
Rogel @ May 20, 2007 # No Comment Yet
While I was writing about the appointment of Zimbabwe to chair the UN commission for sustainable development I missed this:
Meanwhile, at the Disarmament Commission last month, Iran was elected to serve as vice chairman with Syria as rapporteur. Both countries are on the U.S. list of terrorist-sponsoring countries. Iran is currently defying U.N. sanctions over […]
Rogel @ May 14, 2007 # 3 Comments
One might think that Zimbabwe should be case study of the evil of social engineering, and the example of how not to build an economy. After all the story of Zimbabwe is the story of:
For years it was a major tobacco producer and a potential bread basket for surrounding countries.
But the forced seizure of […]
Rogel @ April 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Back on Thursday I wrote about the shameful role of the UN in protecting human rights, or actually avoiding from doing so. And than I saw this caricature that expressing basically the same criticism:
While I’m used to here most criticism about the UN focus on Israel from Israelis or Jewish organizations it is encouraging to […]
Rogel @ April 5, 2007 # 7 Comments
I have written numerous times about the genocide in Darfur, and I have joined my voice to organizations that called the UN to send peacekeeping forces. This was a mistake!
The UN, as organization, was a mistake from the day it was established. pretending to created a democratic institute that will prevent wars, or at […]
Rogel @ March 23, 2007 # No Comment Yet
If this report is accurate, and I have no reason to doubt it, we reached new level of cynicism and shamelessness:
At its ongoing fourth session, the UN Human Rights Council’s European Union and African Group members have now tabled competing draft resolutions on the human rights situation in Darfur, Sudan. Both drafts purport to be […]
Rogel @ February 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Does someone really believe that the UN is so competent to handle this challenge?
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 17 (Reuters) - An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday.
Maybe it […]