Israel Matzav

What the UN doesn't want you to know about human rights

Daniel Schwammenthal describes some of the human rights violations by UN member states that the UN does all it can to make sure you don't hear.

The speakers were never meant to live and tell their stories. Their torturers expected them to either submit or die. But somehow these men and women managed to escape from their dungeons and concentration camps to gather at the seat of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

They came to bear witness to the crimes committed by some of the very members of this esteemed UN body. Naturally, at the Palace of the Nations, where over 80 international officials, including Foreign Secretary William Hague, will over the coming days address the Council, there will be no space for these brave freedom fighters.

This is why UN Watch, together with over 20 other NGOs, organized the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy last week. Now in its fifth year, the annual summit does the sort of work the UN shies away from. It gives the victims, not the perpetrators, of state terror a podium.

Read the whole thing.

The Obama administration joining the 'human rights council has made a huge difference, hasn't it?

Labels: United Nations Human Rights Council, United Nations Watch

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:34 PM