Thursday, May 24, 2012

UN - Unfit for purpose

The U.N. Security Council has shown itself to be "unfit for purpose." as if most socialists require to be told this by Amnesty Internation!

"The language of human rights is shelved when inconvenient or standing in the way of profit"
Amnesty secretary-general Salil Shett said "In the last year it has all too often become clear that opportunistic alliances and financial interests have trumped human rights as global powers jockey for influence in the Middle East and North Africa,"

"Governments are willing to promote it when the country that they are being critical of either has no power or has no strategic importance to them. And at the same time are totally willing to bend the rules when it does,"
Amnesty's London-based senior director of International Law and Policy, said Widney Brown

"Ousting individual leaders - however tyrannical - is not enough to deliver long-term change,"
Amnesty declares in the report. Amnesty claims that a failure to intervene in Sri Lanka and inaction over crimes against humanity in Syria  have left the United Nations Security Council looking redundant as a guardian of global peace. The human rights organisation also claims that the emerging powerhouses of India, Brazil and South Africa have too often been "complicit through their silence" in weakening the Security Council's influence as a guardian of global peace.

"Of the top six arms dealers in the world, five of those top six are permanent members of the Security Council.  And there is a certain irony in the fact that the governments charged with international peace and security in fact are major arms dealers,"
Brown said, citing it as a a situation that can create a conflict of financial interest.

The report documents restrictions on freedom of speech in at least 91 countries as well as cases of people tortured or otherwise ill-treated in at least 101 countries.
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