Human Wrongs II

The more I look into this Human Rights racket the more worried I become.

Have a guess, according to the UN, as to which countries are the top 5 Human Rights violators?

Here is a helpful table I drew up, just in case you thought of these ones:

Country	UN Global “Human Rights Violators” Ranking	A brief example of how life and human liberty are cherished
China	11	"in the past, capital punishment was carried out by a single shot to the back of the head at execution fields outside Chinese cities and families of the dead were sent a bill for the bullet" (click on the link for the amazing progress they've made.)
Pakistan	23	where they wire up babies to kill political candidates
Saudi Arabia	29	where women still aren't allowed to drive,and a women's testimony in court is worth half that of a man's testimony
Iran	16	where they torture students,children are eligible for capital punishment,and they arrest men & women for looking “too western”

Source: http://www.eyeontheun.org/browse-un.asp?ya=1&ua=1&sa=1&tpa=1 (viewed on 14/5/08)

No, according to the UN, the most egregious violator of human rights, in the world, is of course Israel (#1), followed by Sudan (#2)... ok I'll give them that one, Democratic Republic of Congo (#3), Myanmar (#4), and the United States (#5)...hmmm.

If anything should convince you of the irrelevance of the UN, it should be those figures. How an institution can condemn:

a. the only country in the Middle East where gays aren't put to death for being gay, and
b. the only functioning democracy in that region

is, to put it nicely, “intellectually dishonest” or as I put it in an earlier draft, “fucking ridiculous.”

Of course it's obvious to everyone that even if all the 'orrible-guards-flushed-my-Quran-down-the-dunny-@-Gitmo stories are true, that the US is by far the worst in terms of Human Rights violations. Seriously though, for hosting the UN in New York, they are responsible for any and all influence the UN have in the world, which thankfully, is not that much (see #2 Sudan for details).

Most of the resolutions, condemnations and other UN “Human Rights Actions” aren't worth the paper they're printed on and have as much chance of being listened to or implemented as I have of convincing my university lecturers that the evidence of Global Warming is “a bit shaky”.

Here is the 1st paragraph of “What we do” from the UN Human Rights - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Right web page. Additions by me in red to “reframe” the statement as it is carried out in practice.

“What we do

As the principal United Nations office mandated to promote and protect human rights for all (except for Israel), OHCHR leads global human rights efforts speaks out objectively (except in the case of Israel and the USA) in the face of human rights violations worldwide (or just in Israel and the USA). We provide a forum for identifying, highlighting and developing responses to today's human rights challenges (in Israel and the USA), and act as the principal focal point of human rights research, education, public information, and advocacy activities in the United Nations system.“
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/WhatWeDo.aspx

And now for Mokbel . I half joked about them trying to, but sometimes life hands you the punch line:

“Lawyers also took Mokbels case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and requested they halt any move to have their client returned to face justice in Melbourne.”

Justice in Greece vs Justice in Melbourne

I can almost see his point....