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Syria Running for Seat on … UN Human Rights Council (And May Win)

UN Watch Reports Syria Running for Seat on UN Human Rights Council and May WinOn the same week that it was revealed Syria is running 27 torture centers in which detainees are forced to “suck their own blood off the floor,” the apparently not-quite-aptly named UN Human Rights Council is considering Syria as a member.

The UN watchdog group UN Watch is asking if the United Nations is “about to sink to a new low,” while The New York Post is sarcastically describing this latest development as “more Turtle Bay humor,” after the Manhattan neighborhood in which UN headquarters sits.

UN Watch discovered Syria’s candidacy in a draft resolution. It reports:

According to a U.S.-sponsored and EU-backed draft resolution that was debated today during informal meetings at the council in Geneva, the murderous regime of Bashar al-Assad is a declared candidate for a seat on the 47-nation U.N. body, in elections to be held next year at the 193-member General Assembly.

UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer believes Syria has a good chance of winning a slot due to typical UN back-room dealings.  He writes:

As part of the U.N.’s 53-nation Asian group, Syria’s candidacy would be virtually assured of victory due to the prevalent system of fixed slates, whereby regional groups orchestrate uncontested elections, naming only as many candidates as allotted seats.

That’s how non-democracies like China, Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia won their current seats, and how Pakistan and Venezuela are about to do the same.

Fears that Syria will indeed win—in a 2013 election for a position starting the following year—appear to have mobilized the U.S. and the European Union into taking the unprecedented action of asking the council to declare in advance that a candidate country, in this case Syria, be declared inherently disqualified to join its ranks.

UN Watch Reports Syria Running for Seat on UN Human Rights Council and May Win

The U.S. and EU’s request was opposed by some other countries, including China, Cuba, Egypt, Brazil, Russia and India, according to UN Watch, which says: “Shockingly, the perfectly reasonable attempt to keep Syria away from the world’s highest human rights body was met with strong resistance.”

Syria tried to get on the council last year, but after massive lobbying against the bid, it was decided Kuwait would replace Syria on the council.

This isn’t the first time the UN has considered Syria as an arbiter of human rights. Last November, UNESCO unanimously approved Syria’s membership on two of its human rights committees and to this day the Assad regime remains a full member of the committee that judges human rights complaints and the committee dealing with human rights organizations.

UN Watch describes past unusual activities at the UN:

In the past decade, the U.N. Human Rights Council elected Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya as chair, hailed Sri Lanka’s “promotion and protection of all human rights” after its army had killed thousands of civilians, and convened an emergency session to lament the death of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder of the Hamas terrorist organization.

Even so, historians will now have to decide whether the U.N.’s flagship human rights body is about to sink to a new low.

An estimated 3,000 Syrians were killed in June, making it the bloodiest month since the uprising began, according to the Syria Network for Human Rights. The network estimates some 16,000 have been killed since the uprising began more than a year ago.

Just Thursday, Norwegian Maj. Gen. Robert Mood who heads the now-suspended U.N. monitoring mission in Syria said the mission would remain on hold due to the escalation and “unprecedented” violence.

Comments (33)

  • lamarlamar
    Posted on July 8, 2012 at 10:30am

    ………and we want to allow these schmucks to make laws for us??? Hillary signd treaties with these people??? They are ANTI anything we stand for. The only reason the UN was located here was so we could get an idea of who ran their countries and a attempt to contact and identify their security people!!!
    After Stalin, we didn’t know who ran Russia until the “Open Sky” proposals at the UN.

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    • sensiblesam
      Posted on August 17, 2012 at 10:50am

      What does it matter what the UN says … You never listen anyway

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  • garbagecanlogic
    Posted on July 7, 2012 at 6:42pm

    The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
    The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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  • Arshloch
    Posted on July 7, 2012 at 1:42pm

    The U(ugly) N (numbskulls) is a collection of fools who ‘lil berry’ and ‘horrible hillary’ are about to surrender the U.S. to by the method of the Arms Trade treaty. We should cut off all funding, send the bums home and turn the building into a low income housing unit.

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  • abunchofbullshit
    Posted on July 7, 2012 at 5:37am

    The UN was a dying entity here until our illustrious leftist president came into office. Along with Bloomberg’s help, the UN is again getting building permits and renovating what was a building on its way out of NY. Stupid stuff like this article demonstrates why the UN should be thrown out of the US and our tax dollar funding ended. The Progressives are in bed with the concept, and from this comes no good to us, the most powerful country in the world (in decline). Agenda 21 will take our lands, our fishing rights, our guns, and our freedoms, and it is happening before our eyes and most politicians don’t even know what is going on in front of their face, especially the local ones that are being used by the one world government jokers. END THE UN NOW!

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  • Depressed_American
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 7:41pm

    The United States of America needs to GET OUT OF THE UNITED NATIONS!!! This is just another travesty that this JOKE of an organization has tried to accomplish. We have NO BUSINESS being apart of this Organization. It has lost its sight on the original goals, and now has become a Third-World attack on Prosperous Nations, in thier bid to transfer their wealth!!!!

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  • GaryInTheMiddle
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 7:15pm

    H3LL, make the SOB the chairperson.

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  • oldjackpinesavage
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 6:30pm

    We should get out of the UN and send it packing from our shores. We would save a lot of money to help pay for health insurance for those who can’t afford health care insurance.

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  • happ77
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 5:08pm

    Bring back John Bolton.

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  • hugo65hsv
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 3:50pm

    There is nothing good I can say about the U.N.. Horse crap is of more value.. All I want to hear is that American tax dollars are not going to the U.N.. That we have closed the U.N. building and pushed it of our sovereign American shores into the ocean…

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  • Dave In Arizona
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 3:40pm

    ‘Tis truly time to get out of this looney bin.

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  • great white hunter
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 12:32pm

    Hey gang! Harris Faulkner on fox just told everyone to go to the gov’t website and let them tell you if you have the malware that will cut you off of the net. She says it is perfectly safe. Doesn’t that make you feel special? And as far as the un goes, I wish it would. We need to stop funding this obscenity. We the peolpe need to stop giving our money to peolpe that hate us. Open your eyes.

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  • frogg
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 12:27pm

    Sadly, The UN Is an Idea that has proved to be a Mistake!!!! Truth, Honor, have no place in this Organization! Time to ask them to leave this country and let them go where ever they want!!!

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  • Lotus503
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 11:52am

    I think that everyone in this country should read the Dick Morris book, “Screwed!”. If you haven’t done so, you really need to.

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  • 65Plus
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 11:40am

    Perhaps the most telling reason why we MUST, ABSOLUTELY get out of the UN. It is utterly corrupt and cannot be “fixed.”

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  • paulwbrown
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 10:57am

    And what is the problem with Syria on the commission? Syria will fit in well with the other great defenders of human rights on the commission. How many reasons do we need to withdraw from the UN and let it die from lack of funding?

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on July 6, 2012 at 11:38am

      As our last vote before leaving the UN we should support their application.

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  • Mutiny
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 10:51am

    I just dont get why you people insist on supporting candidates who arent willing to remove us from the UN. The UN is one of the most anti freedom and anti Israel organizations on the planet.

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    • 65Plus
      Posted on July 6, 2012 at 11:41am

      The UN is a fraud. Far worse than worthless.

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    • sensiblesam
      Posted on August 17, 2012 at 10:57am

      And so it ought to be ,since its a nation engaged in ethnic cleansing , human rights abuses , torture and continual breaches of the Geneva convention. The UN should be moved out of the USA and moved to somewhere where it cant be corrupted and all Veto rights should be removed from all nations

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 10:39am

    Ridiculous.

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  • Tom70
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 10:26am

    There is plenty of cheep real estate in Somalia lets move the un there, THE UN OUT OF THE US AND THE US OUT OF THE UN.

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  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:17am

    “On the same week that it was revealed Syria is running 27 torture centers”
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    As has already been verified though……it was George Soros’s Human Rights Watch organization that was responsible for revealing the existence of the Syrian torture centers.

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    Human Rights Watch is grateful to these and other foundations for their partnership and support:

    Human Rights Watch: brought to you by The Open Society Institute & Soros Foundations Network

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on July 6, 2012 at 10:09am

      @ KidCharlemagne

      Thanks for that link.

      I had a good look around and discovered that they have about 280 staff members. In “financials”, I discovered the “total salaries and benefits”. For 2011, it was a whopping $24 million! And the travel expenses would embarress Al Gore! They call themselves “non-profit”, but check out their investment portfolio.

      I won’t go into all the other eye-opening, jaw-dropping details as you guys can look for yourselves.

      Suffice it to say that this is a very well-heeled organisation and they treat themselves extremely well.

      Oh, and as you point out, George Soros is backing them. Need anything more be said?

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 8:53am

    The UN is a pathetic excuse for a “peace” agency ever! They have NO CONCEPT of “Human Rights” and BO uses them to report the USA every chance he gets for “violations.” COME ON. LOOK at who they allow to be MEMBERS! Please. UN = USELESS NONSENSE!

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  • nzkiwi
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 8:12am

    This is the make-up and voting power of the UN Human Rights Commission:

    African States (13 seats)
    Asian States (13 seats)
    Eastern European States (6 seats)
    Latin American & Caribbean States (8 seats)
    Western European & Other States (7 seats)

    The “Western European & Other States” is us civilised countries. The United States has refused to join it and maintain “observer status” but you are considered to be part of this group. NZ and Aust come under the contemptuous “other”.

    See how this works? The “WE&OS“ group consists of the countries which pay almost all of the money used by the UN and who supply most of the ”peacekeeping” forces. And yet their voting power borders on the irrelevent.

    Another point is that the charter contains a “defamation of religion” clause. Basically it is an anti-blasphemy law. Care to guess which religious group had that inserted?

    Did you guess the OIC (Organisation of the Islamic Conferences)? Which leads straight to its umbrella group, the Muslim Brotherhood.

    The smallest amount of research leads one to the inescapable conclusion that the whole organisation (the UN) is a collossal sham. A confidence trick. A rort.

    We are paying our sworn enemies truckloads of money and conferring legitimacy on them. And getting shafted as we do it.

    Slowly, painfully slowly, the west is waking up and the UN’s days as a VIP lounge for thieves and murderers will eventually end.

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  • DenisWTexas
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 8:10am

    NOW can we finally kick them to the curb and reclaim that real estate in New York for something more useful?

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    • T-2
      Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:16am

      We should kick them out of NY and withdraw our membership. The UN is like a bad timeshare scam.

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  • jujubeebee
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 7:29am

    And obama and hillary clinton want to give away our soveignty to the United Nations whereby they vote to tell us (who only get one measly vote) what we have to do, how much money we have to fork over for their causes and now they want to let Syria in to vote. We are losing our freedom in every way possible.

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on July 6, 2012 at 7:49am

      We need to pull out of the U.N. and remove their head quarters from our country. We are a nation of “free men” whick elected offical we chose to represent us. The U.N. should has no authority in our country and the offical in Washington allowing U.N regulation to be heap upon our citizenry are traitors and enemies of the Republic.
      We need to march into Washington and phyisically remove every politician that backed any U.N. being placed on our citizens that wasn’t Congressionally approved. And we need to physically march into the U.N. and throw all of their member out into the street. MADNESS THIS ISN’T MADNESS THIS AMERICA!

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  • HKS
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 7:28am

    And what good is the UN? The most worthless organization ever conceived and one of the biggest tax burdens we carry with zero payback. Talk about bad investments, makes Solendra look like child’s play.

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  • historyguy48
    Posted on July 6, 2012 at 7:19am

    Comrades did I ever tell you the story about the fox and the hen house?
    Oh well, in summary, the fox is well fed, but it doesn’t work out so well for the hens.
    Unfortunately, we are the hens!

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on July 6, 2012 at 7:27am

      We need to pull out of the U.N. and remove their head quarters from our country. We are a nation of “free men” whick elected offical we chose to represent us. The U.N. should has no authority in our country and the offical in Washington allowing U.N regulation to be heap upon our citizenry are traitors and enemies of the Republic.

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