U.N. Human Rights Commission

Now there is an oxymoron. Here are some interesting observations on the corrupt UN.

Former Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, who is chairing the American delegation, said such countries should also be ineligible to sit on the commission.

"The commission must be made up of firefighters, not of arsonists," he said.

Boschwitz, a Republican senator from Minnesota from 1979 until 1991, cited a report released Thursday by the U.S. campaign group Freedom House, which said that six of the world's most repressive regimes are on the U.N. panel that is supposed to uphold human rights.

China, Cuba, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Zimbabwe, which have "dire human rights situations," work in concert to prevent the commission from combatting abuses, said a statement by the private group based in Washington, D.C.

The report was released in Geneva to coincide with the annual six-week meeting of the U.N. commission.

"Rather than serving as the proper international forum for identifying and publicly censuring the world's most egregious human rights violators, the (commission) instead protects abusers, enabling them to sit in judgment on democratic states that honor and respect the rule of law," said Jennifer Windsor, Freedom House's executive director.

Other members of the commission include countries that Freedom House classifies as "not free," including Bhutan, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Swaziland and Togo.

Which is why the commissions latest report on children's malnutrition in Iraq is pure bull. Dispite an earlier report by this same UN stating that the malnutrition rate was at 25% before the war, the UN now claims the rate has doubled to 8% now. Pretty fuzzy math, no? Just like the math they used in the oil for food scandal.

A full membership list is here.

If the issues weren't so grave the UN would be a joke.
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