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International-UN-NGOs

China, Cuba, Pakistan elected to UNHRC

2020-10-14

[Jpost] The United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
General Assembly elected China on the Human Rights Council, despite its treatment of Uigher Moslems, some one million of whom have been held in detention camps.It had the support of 139 out of the 191 nations who cast their vote. China was one of 16 nations that vied for 15 three-year seats on the 47-member council, which holds annual elections for its rotating membership.

Cuba, Russia and Pakistain were also elected, but Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
failed to secure a seat, receiving only 90 of the minimum 97 required votes.

Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley

...Trump administration's former ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
tweeted in response, "the UN Human Rights Council is a total farce not worthy of its name or the United States giving it any credibility."

Prior to the vote, Lisa Nandy, the United Kingdom’s shadow foreign secretary from the Labour Party, wrote a letter to the country’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, asking that the UK oppose China’s UNHRC membership.

Posted by:trailing wife

#1 This all makes sense when you realize the UN Human Rights Council was originally going to be the Villains, Thieves and Scoundrels Union but the name was already taken.

Posted by: SteveS 2020-10-14 03:38

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