By Guest Column Monday, May 13, 2013
This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on FOX News.
In case you didn’t think the UN could get even more bizarre (and dangerous), try this one. Iran will soon become the President of the Conference on Disarmament. The Iranians rotate into the job for four weeks near the end of May. Their qualification for the position? Iran is the member state that comes next in the English alphabet after Indonesia.
{paginate} {/paginate} Iran to chair U.N. disarmament conferenceBy UN Watch Monday, May 13, 2013
GENEVA, – Iran will chair the United Nations’ most important disarmament negotiating forum during the panel’s May session, which opened today, sparking calls by an independent monitoring group for the U.S., the EU, and UN chief Ban Ki-moon to protest. Click here for UN website.
{paginate} {/paginate} The United Nations Hezbollah Protection ForceBy Joseph A. Klein Monday, May 13, 2013
The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1701 in August 2006, which brought about an end to the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The resolution called on the Lebanese government to “secure its borders and other entry points to prevent the entry in Lebanon without its consent of arms or related materiel” and authorized the peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (‘UNIFIL”) to assist the government of Lebanon to accomplish this objective “at its request.”
{paginate} {/paginate} UN Peacekeepers In Sudan Fail to Protect Black African Tribal Chief From Arab Militia ExecutionersBy Joseph A. Klein Friday, May 10, 2013
South Sudan’s ambassador to the United Nations Francis Deng told reporters on May 12th that the Misseriya Arab tribesmen’s attack on a convoy of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) and a delegation of the Ngok Dinka tribe the previous week killed his older brother, the Ngok Dinka tribe’s Paramount Chief Kuol Deng Kuol.
{paginate} {/paginate} UN Report Promotes Child Prostitution and Sexual SlaveryBy Christian Newswire Thursday, May 9, 2013
ROCKFORD, Ill., —A report by the United Nations Development’s Program’s Global Commission on HIV and the Law, funded in part by a grant from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, has a peculiar prescription for combating AIDS. It calls on governments around the world to legalize prostitution, including child prostitution, and drug use.
{paginate} {/paginate} UN’s Richard Falk Again Calls Boston Attack “Resistance” to U.S. “Military Undertakings”By UN Watch Thursday, May 9, 2013
{paginate} {/paginate} UN Watch Welcomes News of Israel’s Expected Return to UN Rights Council
By UN Watch Tuesday, May 7, 2013
UN Watch today welcomed news that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a diplomatic initiative, with the help of Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, to return to the UN Human Rights Council, and called on the 47-nation body to ensure its success by removing provisions that both Ban Ki-moon and Kofi Annan criticized as discriminatory against the Jewish state. (See quotes at bottom.)
{paginate} {/paginate} The UN, Syria and IsraelBy Joseph A. Klein Monday, May 6, 2013
The United Nations’ investigations into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria are going nowhere. The UN Security Council is paralyzed when it comes to dealing with the current crisis in Syria, and is unwilling to enforce resolutions it passed years ago to prevent Syria’s neighbor Lebanon from becoming Hezbollah’s staging ground to attack Israeli civilians with sophisticated imported rockets.
{paginate} {/paginate} Fight the blackmailBy Claudia Rosett Monday, May 6, 2013
Yet again, North Korea is playing hostage politics with America — sentencing a US citizen in its custody, Kenneth Bae, to 15 years at hard labor. It’s time we stopped giving in to this extortion.
{paginate} {/paginate} Fraud: Cuba Uses 454 Front Groups to Subvert Today’s UN Review of its Human Rights RecordBy UN Watch Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Also: Syria, Iran, North Korea took the floor today to sing Havana’s praises
GENEVA, – Today’s UN review of Cuba’s rights record was tainted by “massive fraud” committed by the regime’s use of an unprecedented 454 front groups to officially register 93 statements praising Havana’s policies and practices, as revealed exclusively in a new report today by UN Watch entitled “How Cuba Hijacked its UPR.”
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