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The members of the UN's 2017 Human Rights Council is a murderers' row of the world's worst nations

By Robert Laurie ——--January 3, 2017

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Every few years, the United Nations puts its worthlessness on display and the amount of money the United States dumps into the global fiasco becomes a political hot potato. Recently, it was the actions and words of Barack Obama and John Kerry that had people talking. Their orchestration of anti-Israel resolutions sparked a round of saber-rattling about pulling US funding from the New York based boondoggle. Need another reason to defund this joke of an operation?
Take a look at the membership of the U.N. Human Rights Council. It's basically an international Legion of Doom, in which the planet's worst villains have joined forces in one of the greatest farces ever perpetrated. From U.N Watch:
Happy New Year! Meet the 2017 membership of the U.N. Human Rights Council, elected by the United Nations with the mandate to “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights“:
  • Saudi Arabia 
    Expertise in human rights: Death sentences for apostasy and adultery; corporal punishment including flogging and amputation; judiciary controlled by regime; beheading more peoeple than ever before; arbitrary arrests of dissenters and minorities; no freedom of speech; jails blogger Raif Badawi.
  • Venezuela 
    Expertise in human rights: Widespread arbitrary detention; imprisonment of opposition leaders; intimidation of journalists; torture; policies causing mass hunger and health catastrophe
  • China
    Expertise in human rights: Denial of freedom of speech, religion, and association; extrajudicial killings; repression of civil society; discrimination against Tibetans and other minorities.
    • Cuba
      Expertise in human rights: Systematic violation of freedom of speech, assembly, press; elections are neither free nor fair; threats and violence against dissidents.
    • Iraq
      Expertise in human rights: Pro-government militias commit widespread human rights abuses, including assassinations, enforced disappearances, property destruction.
    • Qatar
      Expertise in human rights: Inhuman conditions for 1.4 million migrant workers; women denied basic rights to equality, denied right to be elected to legislative council; finances ISIS and Hamas.
    • Burundi
      Expertise in human rights: Police killings of peaceful protesters; government forces commit summary executions, targeted assassinations, enforced disappearances; arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence; genocide warning.
    • Bangladesh
      Expertise in human rights: Extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, killing of secular bloggers by Islamist groups, restrictions on online speech and the press, early and forced marriage, gender-based violence, abysmal working conditions and labor rights.
    • United Arab Emirates
      Expertise in human rights: No political parties, no option to change government; restrictions on freedoms of speech, press, assembly, association; arrests without charge, incommunicado detentions, lengthy pretrial detentions; police and prison guard brutality; violence against women; anti-gay discrimination; mistreatment and sexual abuse of foreign domestic servants and other migrant workers.

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    Yes, there are other Human Rights watchdogs within the U.N. that are - at least arguably - better. They don't accomplish much but we'd be remiss if we didn't acknowledge them. Most of them are toothless, and many of them are completely corrupt, but they're there.   However, the fact that the U.N. tolerates the existence of a completely laughable outfit like the UNHRC should be all the evidence needed to defund. P.S. The picture at the top of the page is a public execution in Saudi Arabia. The guy probably disagreed with the government or something.

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