The United Nations was once held up as a beacon of hope for a world ruined by global war and living under the threat of nuclear annihilation. Now, it’s just a sick joke, at best.
The abject failures of the UN have been piling up for decades, whether it’s standing by while millions are slaughtered in African genocides, or presiding over the wholesale destruction of Libya into a failed state where open slave markets fester like pustules on the corpse of globalism.
Worse still, the UN has become the plaything of tyrants and oppressors the world over.
Even as questions persist as to how China handled its own coronavirus pandemic — including whether the Chinese government effectively silenced doctors and nurses who spoke out in the early days of the virus’ spread — the United Nations has reportedly appointed China to serve on a UN Human Rights panel designed to help identify threats to the freedom of speech, and governments who are carrying out “enforced disappearances” and “arbitrary detention.”
No, that’s not from the Onion or the Babylon Bee.
The UN, always on the cutting edge of global matters will allow China to “have a say in selecting at least 17 UN human rights ‘mandate-holders’ over the next year. China will also assist in screening candidates for UN human rights positions.”
“It’s absurd and immoral for the UN to allow China’s oppressive government a key role in selecting officials who shape international human rights standards and report on violations worldwide,” the executive director of UN Watch, which first reported China’s appointment to the panel, told media in a statement. “Allowing China’s oppressive and inhumane regime to choose the world investigators on freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances is like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief.”
The appointment seems particularly egregious in light of China’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic and reports that the Chinese government, already well known for curbing the freedom of speech of its constituents as well as their access to vital information, silenced doctors who raised the alarm on coronavirus[…]
As for “arbitrary detention,” in the weeks and months before China suffered the first coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese government was being investigated for a series of “concentration camps,” where millions of ethnically-Chinese Muslims, known as Uigurs, were reportedly being kept in cramped, unsafe conditions and forced to work as slaves in Chinese factories.
The Trump administration is already making noises about defunding the WHO. That should just be the start.
It’s long past time to defund the UN, evict it from its New York headquarters (they can always relocate to somewhere more in keeping with their ethos, like Beijing or Riyadh) and turn the whole place into a museum dedicated to the folly of globalism.
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