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U.N. Adopts Human Rights Report That Praises…Gadhafi?

U.N. Human Rights Commission Adopts Report Praising Defunct Qaddafi Government

When it comes to human rights, critics often charge the United Nations with being selective at best. Especially with regards to Israel. And a recent bit of news coming out of the U.N. Human Rights Council will do nothing to assuage that sentiment, given its choice of human rights role models. In this instance, the late despot Moammar Gadhafi.

Fox News brings the story:

A United Nations panel has adopted a report praising Qaddafi-era Libya for its human rights record, a year after the report was sidelined amid international objection.

The report initially came before the U.N. Human Rights Council in the middle of the uprising against the Muammar Qaddafi regime. At the time, the U.N. had just voted to suspend Libya from the rights council — under pressure to maintain a consistent message toward Libya, the council later postponed consideration of the report.

But the Human Rights Council on Wednesday returned to the document — and approved it.

So, Gadhafi is a human rights star, according to the U.N. Cynics might think that means the U.N. has low standards. Consider the following from a report in The Guardian from 2009:

The United Nations’ most senior human rights official said last night that the Israeli military may have committed war crimes in Gaza. The warning came as Israeli troops pressed on with the deadly offensive in defiance of a UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire.

Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has called for “credible, independent and transparent” investigations into possible violations of humanitarian law, and singled out an incident this week in Zeitoun, south-east of Gaza City, where up to 30 Palestinians in one house were killed by Israeli shelling.

Pillay, a former international criminal court judge from South Africa, told the BBC the incident “appears to have all the elements of war crimes”.

So what’s behind giving star treatment to a country whose dictator was recently overthrown because of human rights abuses, but a democratic government backed by the U.S. is being condemned? The fact that Israel isn’t on the Human Rights Commission, whereas Saudi Arabia and the People’s Republic of China are, may have something to do with it.

Comments (59)

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 4:28am

    Let’s move the physical location of the United Nations to where it belongs – Iran. Let Iran pay for everything. It will save the USA billions of dollars. They can have their – hate Israel, human rights commission, and we can totally ignore them.

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    • SGT Rock
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:01am

      Amen. Also if they loved him so much why did they push to have him taken out? We live in an upside down world.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:55pm

      I’m down with Switzerland, Sweden or Zimbabwe.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 6:07pm

      Why Then Did Obama Order Ghidafi Killed? Ghidafi even begged for his life. Who else is on Obama’s Kill List, YOU, ME, PALIN?

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    • VicksVaporub
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:02pm

      The only thing Gadhafi ever did to get killed was piss off the IMF.

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  • wntsmallgov
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 4:26am

    Just proves that the UN is Useless Nitwitts.

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    • Taint Boil
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 3:32pm

      16 Things Libya Will Never See Under NATO-Rebel Regime, benefits Gaddafi provided:

      • government-supplied electricity, water, and practically free gasoline;

      • interest-free loans from Libya’s state-owned bank;

      • housing as a human right for everyone;

      • newlyweds given $50,000 for their first apartment to help start family life;

      • free education and healthcare;

      • literacy raised from 25% in 1969 to 83% – higher than in America;

      • farmers given free land, equipment, seeds and livestock;

      • state subsidies to study abroad and receive specialized medical treatment if not available at home;

      • half the cost of new car purchases;

      • gasoline at $0.14 per liter;

      • no state debt or banker occupation;

      • average professional salaries paid graduates unable to find employment in their fields until finding jobs;

      • sharing a portion of Libya’s oil wealth with everyone, credited to personal bank accounts;

      • mothers giving birth given $5,000;

      • subsidized food, including 40 loaves of bread for $0.15;

      • one-fourth of Libyans are college graduates; and

      • Gaddafi’s Great Man-Made River system made the desert bloom to supply water to households and for agriculture.

      Thanks to NATO, it’s all gone. Libyans lost everything, many of them their lives, other lost loved ones. Their liberating struggle’s committed to regain all they can. They’ll never accept NATO depravity. They’ll live again free

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    • EndTheFedNOW
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:25pm

      My God YOU ARE SO SPOT ON.

      I wish these neocons would see what these wars really do. If they think Libya is bad. They should hear the truth about Iraq

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  • REPUB1
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 2:38am

    Hardy HAR HAR who’s laughing NOW???

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  • sasquatch08
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:50am

    The U.N. is a joke.

    It’s a bad joke. We pay like a quarter of their annual funding and when they actually decide to do something guess who ponies up most of the troops, equipment and cash? We do.

    I don’t understand why we continue to pay for (and in some cases even belong to) an organization that uses our money to trash us and praise some of the most despicable people on the planet then turns around and asks us to give up the lions share of blood and treasure when things hit the fan.

    With friends like that we don’t need enemies.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 3:52am

      Exactly. The UN is nothing more than a VIP lounge for theives and murderers.

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:45am

    And the democrats want this group to rule over us.

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  • SketchFinster
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:19am

    Add this to the who cares file. File it directly behind Obamie’s Peace Prize.

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  • EndTheFedNOW
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:58am

    He made Libya the best country in Africa. I dont wanna defend the guy but he did great things for that country. The west had other plans for Libya. They (under the cover of the left/ Obama) are going to go into Africa and rape and pillage. The UN will take over the whole place. This KONY bull is apart of it.

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  • SpeckledPup
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:45am

    one of the few stable countries in that area with a leader who already bowed to America, and obama had to kill him to turn Libya into a sharia muslim terrorist state.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:58am

      Makes me wonder if Romney’s pleasant depiction of Obama as merely inept is right after all. There is no way the Obama could have actually wanted the change we now have in Libya, is there?

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:08am

      Gadhafi had already given up his nuclear and WMD ambitions and we put a bullet in his head for cooperating. Now, Obama can’t figure out why Iran and N.Korea don’t want to give up theirs. Brilliant foreign policy.

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  • ICRedifURBlue
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:21am

    Get out of the UN and get the UN out of the USA……..Put the POS organization in Baghdad or Tripoli or Cairo and see how many countries wanna partake of those hosts hospitality……

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:27am

      Indeed and now the NAACP is asking for UN intervention on US voter laws. I can see Obama rolling in laughter with that one, one more try for him to impose the UN on our own nation…leave the UN, impeach Obama and try him and his cronies for high treason.

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  • Rightsofman
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:40pm

    Move the “United Nations” to the Canary Islands – no more high-life in NYC on the dime of the American taxpayers. Stop footing the bill for the whole corrupt pack of tyrants. What is the USA anyhow, a doormat?

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  • HorseCrazy
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:28pm

    will someone in charge please get the chutzpah to get the united states out of the UN or the UN out of the USA. please attention all elected officials, this is bonkers. how can we allow this clown show in our country on our dime? hello wake up

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 6:19am

      How about And – as in get the US out of the UN AND the UN out of the US

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  • Mikev5
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:54pm

    I dont think Obumer has a clue what he is doing he probably uses a Ouija board for answers.

    Or he tosses darts at an answer dart board thats spinning.

    What’s the saying couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag a dorker president I have never seen in my life what an idiot

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:19pm

      He probably uses one of those black 8 balls…that you shake and it comes up with “yes or no”

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  • Mikev5
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:46pm

    We need to exit stage left from the UN and the EU the UN does nothing for the USA it’s a bunch of misfits and socialist morons.

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  • TheObamanation
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:46pm

    I put as much stock in what the U.N says as I do with what obama says

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  • youdidthis
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:32pm

    Fox News Admits The Fed Government Is Out Of Control!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX4VtriddJ0

    judge rips new one
    shep smith?
    loses his mind as he recognizes the truth.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:31pm

    The problem is the UN is mistaking which Gadhafi they were talking about. They confused the Libyian dictator with Andrew Gadhafi, of East Manhattan, Andrew runs a Pizza palace and Brothel. 90% of all the UN Diplomats go there and when they seen the name Gadhafi, they were like “Hey Andy is a great guy”.

    So, everyone, it was just a case of mistaken identity, they weren’t talking about the mass murdering dictator, they were talking about the Pizza Tossing Pimp.

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    • Mikev5
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:47pm

      Great story thanks

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:04pm

      Yea, thank you for clearing that up.

      (laughed so hard my teeth fell out)

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  • SpeckledPup
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:30pm

    the corrupt communist UN aka NWO aka soros’s Fourth Reich said THAT?! and obama had him murdered! how rich…

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  • abefij
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:29pm

    The UN is all about consensus and political correctness. Truth is relative, science is political, dictatorship is peace, sexual abuse is tolerated, Israel is wrong, appeasement is preferred, resolutions are meaningless, aid is absconded, money is funneled, US is bound.

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  • Bernard
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:28pm

    It follows the same madness of the murderous Yasser Arafat who was behind so many terrorist acts on planes who was also granted the Nobel peace prize. If Arafat can win the Nobel Peace Prize so should Idi Amin.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:23pm

    Does everyone get it? The UN is the most worthless organization, and the costliest in the whole wide world. What a disgusting bunch of illiterate toads. No wonder everyone in this country wants them the h…out of here. The very idea of our government sucking up to them makes me sick.

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  • randy
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:23pm

    It‘s about time those SOB’s (UN) was forced out of this country!

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:22pm

    They are trying to overwhelm and confuse our conscience. Those who hold to the light will not be deceived.

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    • Mark0331
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:39pm

      Well stated…its all coming ‘fast and furious ’ now isnt it?…Hold the Line!!

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  • spirited
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:19pm

    Unthinking Nincompoopery

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  • country_hick
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:17pm

    Explain to me again why we support the U.N…

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  • RougeFastFingers
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:12pm

    Nobody with brains takes the UN seriously.

    Report Post » RougeFastFingers  
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