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UN watchdog blasts Ban Ki-moon blessing of Syria and Venezuela as C24 members
A UN watchdog group criticized Ban Ki-moon for his blessings to the UN committee charged with “decolonizing” among others, the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar, at the same time as the 24-nation group elected mass murdering Syria and human rights abusing Venezuela to leadership posts. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWho is surprised after Libya chair the Human Rights committee. Maybe they will finally toss the c24.
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 12:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0One need not look very far to find ludicrous behaviour at the UN.
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 02:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0quote:“There are 17 territories still before the committee, and most do not want independence, which is only one of the reasons the committee, dominated by third-world nations, is often criticized as a costly irrelevance.”
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 03:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0This guys is absolutely right, the c24 is dominated by third world nations. Instead it should be dominated by proud developed nations just like the UK and the US right?. They invaded a whole nation with false proof of weapons of mass destructions they've never found to later say sorry we have mistaken, millons of civilians in Irak are dead becouse of us but we apologies.
I would love to see how this UN watchdog group asked for the removal of the USA and the UK from the security council having made huge atrocities to humanity.
Liberato
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 04:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Did highlighting the UK and US faults suddenly make Venezuela and Syria functioning democracies and end their human rights abuses?
Yeah, didn't think so.
Wow so Venezuela and Syria makes human rights abuses while the Uk and the US made just some “faults”?.
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 04:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0What about the tortured in guantanamo bay of suspects without any kind of trial. The illegal prisons made in Europe. The torure the british and north americans made in Iraq?
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/19/britain-guilty-systemic-torture-iraq
Name me one country that has never committed a human rights abuse ever!
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 05:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just one......
I'm waiting......
Is it really surprising that neither the UK nor the USA cooperate with the C24.
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 06:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0This just plays right into our hands.
@5
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 07:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just remember that it is our own free press that is why you know about these excesses (you even quote the Guardian). How is the free press in Russia and Syria and some other C24 countries? Are they reporting the corruption of the C24 committee in their home countries? Is Correa a big fan?
Chavez is down here. He is often on toasting duty.
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 08:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0“At the time, activities of the committee were investigated by the United Nations inspector general, Karl T. Paschke, who concluded that money was being squandered.”
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 09:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0And whose money are they squandering, Argentina's, Venezuela's. Syria's? Of course not, it's our money!
The civilised world should withdraw their contributions until the UN cleans up its act.
This is the same UN whose:
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 02:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Declared that Julian Assange had been “arbitrarily detained”.
Err that would be the guy who rather than face up to the RAPE allegations against him....
Skipped bail and ran and hid in the Ecuadorian Embassy.
But somehow the UN group says that is the UK governments fault.
Oh he was subject to a LEGAL EU wide arrest warrant.
Ironic how the EU can be more democratic than the UN.
The UN isn't worth its weight in shit.....should be ignored.
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 04:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Many of the countries of the committee have questionable track records on human rights and 21 of the 29 countries in the committee have been ranked as being ‘not free’ or ‘partly free’ by the 2014 ‘Freedom in the World’ Survey. Enough said.
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 07:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But if you should want more: https://www.academia.edu/11274445/Falklands_-_UN_C24_Committee
Ban Ki-moon
Mar 03rd, 2016 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0abt time the UK demanded an end to the farce.
Surely the as many years ago the UK allowed the Falklands and Gib to be subject to the C24. We should now removing them from the C24 listing.
Mar 04th, 2016 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0If for no other reason as the C24 has been asked numerous time to send a fact finding mission to these locations, which they have refused to do.
Thus time to put up or shut up.
Ummm. just read this item and I see that one of the 17 territories listed is East Timor but surely East Timor gained independence back in the early noughties and is now a sovereign nation known as Timor L'Este (or some such). perhaps the C24 didn't notice or perhaps the name change confused them (or me if I'm wrong).
Mar 04th, 2016 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sometimes I wonder why, the government wont removes them from the list.
Mar 04th, 2016 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Any ideas.
I find it funny that PR use to be on that list and only 5% voted for independence and the remainder voted to disband the C24 for speaking for them without permission.
Mar 04th, 2016 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0C24 = tits on a bull.
“I commend the leadership of all those committed to bringing new energy to its work,” said Mr. Ban.”
Mar 05th, 2016 - 12:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0New energy? That's a laugh, try inertia.
Moon seems to think he is the world's ruler. It's time he is snuffed and place someone meaningful. How much corruption was the with his predecessor? The UN is a joke.........now their peace keepers are raping, must have been the Brazilians to teach that one.
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