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November 9, 2009

North Korea Faces Review by U.N. Human Rights Council

And here’s a sample of what the council will hear: In the course of beatings, the guards broke all his teeth, leaving him toothless for four years. To deprive him of sleep, the guards at the underground prison at Hoeryong city near the Chinese border used “pigeon torture”. Jung was handcuffed and tied by his arms to an object behind him so he could not stand or sit. He felt as though his bones were breaking through his chest while...

Categories "United" Nations/Human Rights
May 20, 2006

A Council of Tyrants

This morning, my suburban comfort was again disturbed by the intrusion of shocking images of prisoner abuse, but this time, not the newsworthy kind. The BBC, Reuters, the Washington Post, and Al-Jazeera have deemed this story unfit for your consumption. You may disagree if you wonder whether we dare leave even a part of a country in the hands of these people. If so, you’re on your own. Moments after this picture was taken, this Iraqi soldier was murdered by...

Categories "United" Nations/Human Rights/Media Criticism/Terrorism/Iraq/Uncategorized
June 7, 2008

U.S. to Abandon Second Consecutive U.N. Human Rights Sham

After the former U.N. Human Rights Commission died of shame for having admitted some of the world’s most repressive nations as members, the United Nations formed the “Human Rights Council” to replace it,  and promptly admitted China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Cuba as members.  The U.S. government has finally given up on this second sham human rights body: The United States has quietly informed Western allies of its intention to walk away from the U.N. Human Rights Council, diplomatic sources...

Categories "United" Nations
May 21, 2006

The UN-topia

My last TKL post before the site went down was a fairly caustic criticism of the U.N. Human Rights Council, whose members solemnly swear to uphold the highest standards of human rights, and whose members include Saudi Arabia, China, Pakistan, Tunisia, Cameroon, Vietnam, and Cuba, the only country that actually has gulags on the island of Cuba. All of these nations are classified as “not free” by Freedom House, and China, Vietnam, and Cuba are all infamous for the terror...

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