UN officials say Congo prisoners dying of hunger

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - At least 26 prisoners have died of hunger in a prison in Congo since the beginning of the year, U.N. officials said.

The United Nations Mission in Congo sent a team to the Mbuji-Mayi Central Prison in the province of Kasai Oriental, about 600 miles southeast of the capital, Kinshasa.

Sylvie Van Wildenberg, a U.N. spokeswoman, said that four prisoners died during the night of July 13 "as a result of severe malnutrition." At least 10 have died since June, and 26 since the beginning of the year, she said Monday.

"Our concern is even greater as we noted that among these deaths, many of them are defendants, who are therefore presumed innocent because they have not been judged due to the slowness of the legal process," said Assiongbon Tettekpoe, a local human rights officer for the U.N., who visited the prison earlier this month.

The prison, built in the 1960s, has a capacity for 200 prisoners but is housing at least 425.

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UN officials say Congo prisoners dying of hunger

And the U.N. is going to do... Uh, what IS the U.N. going to do??

Likely the exact same thing they always do, NOTHING, that and complicate the problem even more...

The U.N. is really good at finding and pointing out problems all over the world, but it seems that they are that *toothless tiger* that has a lot of *growl* and that's about it...

Get the U.S. OUT of the U.N. and get the U.N. OUT of the U.S.

UN condemns Somalia slaying of aid official

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The U.N. has condemned the slaying of a senior staff member in Somalia but says there are no plans to halt operations.

Officials say unidentified gunmen shot Osman Ali Ahmed as he was leaving a mosque in Mogadishu on Sunday night. Ahmed - who was head of the U.N. Development Program in Somalia - died on way to the hospital. His brother was seriously wounded in the attack and his son suffered minor injuries.

The U.N.'s aid chief for Somalia praised Osman's "great courage and commitment over the past 14 years."

Mark Bowden says it is unclear whether the killing was part of a wider pattern of attacks on U.N. officials. He says the organization will continue its humanitarian work in Somalia.

SOURCE:
UN condemns Somalia slaying of aid official

Yeah, that oughta do it, condemnation by the U.N., that'll make everything OK...

Rape in War: Will the United Nations Walk Its Talk?

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook

The U.N. Security Council has now "resolved," through a "Resolution" to do something about rape in time of war.

One "action" the U.N. has woven into their "Resolution" is to "sanction" the offender. I'm certain all those victims of "gender" abuse feel better now, and those knowing they'll likely be a future victim, now know that their abuses will not go unnoticed.

If "Resolutions" had any merit within the U.N.-body, we would not be in Iraq, Saddam Hussein could not have stolen the food away from his own people under the august "Oil for Food" program, and Iran would not be on the nuclear track. Resolutions mean nothing to the U.N.

Peacekeepers Raping Children...Again tells just one story of "piece-keeping" by the U.N. PeaceKeepers at Cheat-Seeking Missiles.

The U.N. Security Council is ripe with Islamic country-members and is dominated by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). How inconvenient it will be for them to take action against rape of an infidel, or one of their own, for that matter. I won't happen.

Lest we all forget that "rape" is "terrorism," click here for a reminder of the U.N.'s take on terrorism.

Here's the story from Human Rights Watch on those scary Resolutions. Ms. Mollman says it well.

Written by Marianne Mollman,
Human Rights Watch, Advocacy Director for Women's Rights

On June 19, 2008, the United Nations Security Council made history by declaring that rape in war is such a bad idea they plan to do something about it.

That's right. After decades of reports on vicious sexual violence in conflicts across the globe, the highest decision-making body of the United Nations has decided that it is time to act. In fact, no other international actor has as much power to do something about rape in war, and as disappointing a record, as the United Nations Security Council.

It is not that the Security Council hasn't talked about the issue before. In 2000, the Security Council -- under intense pressure from women's groups and UN field personnel -- established a link between the Council's mandate and the way in which women and girls are affected differently by conflict than men and boys. This link is contained in a resolution, known mostly by its number (1325/2000), which includes an urgent call to end impunity for sexual violence and for the United Nations system to gather information on issues related to women and girls in conflict and report these to the Security Council.

Action to back up these good intentions has, however, been scarce. Every year in October since 2000, the Council has celebrated the anniversary of resolution 1325 by announcing the importance of the gender perspective in its work, and then proceeded to largely ignore it for the rest of the year.

Up until last Thursday, that is. On Thursday, the Security Council declared its readiness to act on sexual violence in a resolution that contains three key components:

1. The resolution establishes sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict as a topic within the purview of the Council's work. "Obviously!" you might say, and you'd be right. There is no conflict in recent history where women and girls have not been targeted for sexual violence, whether as a form of torture, as a method to humiliate the enemy, or with a view to spreading terror and despair. If that's not potentially relevant to the protection of international peace and security, what is? But the inclusion of this clause is essential because some members of the Security Council, in particular Russia and China, at times have portrayed rape in war as an issue that doesn't deserve the Council's attention. With the new resolution, they will no longer be able to do so.
2. The resolution creates a clear mandate for the Security Council to intervene, including through sanctions, where the levels or form of sexual violence merit it.

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Iran to Help Plan UN Anti Racism Conference

Cross Posted at Monkey in the Middle

Hat tip to The American Israeli Patriot

I've been wondering what form of idiots run the UN. I now know. They aren't your usual form of idiot, but the Super Idiot that never learn from the past. In the last UN Council about Human Rights aka Durban it didn't address any real Human Rights abusers but did condemn Israel and Judaism as the only abusers on the Earth. After that lovefest, the civilized (Western) world rejected the conference's findings and have called for a boycott if it would be repeated next year. So what did the Super Idiots do?

Despite its numerous calls for Israel's destruction, and repeated denials of the Holocaust, Iran has been selected by the United Nations for a leading position in a committee that will plan the 2009 UN World Conference against Racism.

The planning committee, which will meet for the first time in Geneva on August 27, will be made up of an inner circle of 20 UN member-states, to be headed by Libya.

Libya that bastion of Human Rights. Libya where political opponents disappear. Libya where there is no Freedom of Speech, Religion, Protest, or Press. Such an example of Freedom.

The decision to include Iran in the committee has been slammed by UN watchdogs. "As a UN spokesperson against racism, Iran will invert totally the message and mission of the United Nations," Anne Bayefsky, senior editor of the New York-based Eye on the UN, said in a press release.

"Iran is now poised to wrap itself in a UN flag as a lead agent of the next global conference against racism, Durban II," she added, referring to the 2001 UN conference on racism held in Durban, South Africa, which saw unprecedented levels of anti-Zionist rhetoric and calls for Israel's destruction.

And if you think this time it will be different, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Iran where gay men are hung for being gay. Iran where a rape victim is killed for being raped. Iran where the Mullahs rule the nation with an Iron Fist.

Bayefsky explained that the structure of the UN's Human Rights Council has effectively been taken over by the countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), allowing Iran and Libya access to key roles.

"The states were selected by the UN Human Rights Council and the Council is controlled by the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The majority of seats on the Council are held by the African and Asian regional groups and the OIC has a majority of seats on each of these groups. Western states do not have the votes to block this outrage and it is another example of the hijacking that has occurred of the UN's lead human rights agency," she said.

Which explains very well the lack of intelligence in the UN. And another reason to call for the removal of the United States from the UN. At the very least the United States has to pull its funding from the UN. Let those nice rich Arab states pull their weight, since they wish to control the rest of the UN.

Wizbang's Jay Tea on Why the U.S. Should Scrap the U.N.

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook

Jay Tea has written a terrifically concise piece on why the U.S. should scrap the U.N., or at the very least, cut funding.

My only disagreement with Mr. Tea is that I want the U.N. out of the U.S. and he doesn't care one way or the other, as long as the U.S. takes strong action on U.N. policies.

Please read this article. I don't think it can be said any better.



Posted by Maggie

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No Time for Myanmar!

Cross posted at Monkey in the Middle

From UN Watch:

The UN Human Rights Council (now that's an oxymoron) will convene on May 23, 2008 for an emergency “special session” to address rising food prices. Several EU states also added their names to the Cuban request.

And the current crises in food shortages and the rising price of food is a grave concern not just for Cuba, but all nations.

The world food crisis is certainly an urgent issue, but few expect this meeting to achieve anything other than provide a platform for attacks against the West and free markets.

Again Cuba will find an open forum to spew its hatred at the United States and the West. For in their eyes (and the eyes of many Third World nations) we are the enemy. The sole nation that keeps them repressed and underachieving. If only the US would give them a handout, a free pass, everything handed on a silver platter, then all would be right with their nations.

When the question to the United Nations (aka Tower of Babel) was asked to put Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) on the agenda this Tower of Babel replied:

Rupert Colville of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, responding to a question on the fact that it was strange that the Human Rights Council would be holding a Special Session on the global food crisis, but not on the current situation in Myanmar, said he did not speak for the Council, but the Special Session on the right to food was taking place because there had not been much in the way of thematic special sessions on big issues, and the right to food was a very big issue. There had been discussion to some extent on the possibility of talking about Myanmar, but the Council had a very full programme, including the Universal Periodic Review, so it was a pretty packed schedule at the moment and it would be difficult to fit it in.

To full to put in the possible deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. But the fact that food prices are rising and the Muslims are starting to riot about it, is on the agenda. Maybe if Cuba or Egypt had asked about Myanmar they might be on the agenda. Or if the people of Myanmar were Muslim they would be on the agenda. But the poor people of Myanmar are Buddhists and not likely to be on anyone's agenda in the near future.

But nice Jennifer Pagonis of the UN Refugee Agency said High Commissioner Antonio Guterres will leave for Yemen on Wednesday, 14 May for a five-day visit which will include a first-hand look at UNHCR’s efforts there on behalf of refugees and internally displaced people and the opening of a regional conference on refugee protection and migration in the Gulf of Aden which will be held on 19 and 20 May. Prior to the conference, Mr. Guterres is scheduled to visit UNCHR’s offices in Sana’a and Aden, as well as the Kharaz refugee camp.

But not to the refugees that are dying in Myanmar. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will fly to Myanmar this week and visit the areas hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis, a U.N. spokeswoman said Sunday. He will go and look at the dead and dying, shake his head and then condemn the US for not sending enough food and medicine. He has to appease his Muslim masters or they will vote him out of office.

How like this Tower of Babel to scream at Myanmar, but refuse to address the underlying problem there: The Military Junta. If they started to do that, then they would have to start addressing the abuses of other member nations:

• The lack of human rights to 1/2 of the citizens of Saudi Arabia.
• The Sudanese Government's continuing genocide in Darfur.
• The anti-Western riots in South Africa that killed 12.
• Hezbollah's attacks on Lebanon.
• Iran's pursuit of Nuclear Weapons.
• The continuing rocket attacks into Israel.

No they would have to address these and many more. Instead they will shake their heads at Myanmar, at South Africa, at Sudan, at Hezbollah, at Iran, at Hamas and cry "For Shame!".

The United Nations has become mockery of what its founder envisioned it to be. Instead of a place where the world could come together for the benefit of all the people of the world, it has become a place of hatred, corruption and bigotry. An idea whose time has come and gone.

It is time for the United Nations to start cleaning up their act and behave for the benefit of the world.
Because the time is rapidly coming for the world to dissolve the United Nations.

THIS TIME IS COMING SOON!

DISSOLVE THE UNITED NATIONS!

U.N. Human Rights Council Kicks-Up Its Policy of Abuse

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook

One of the most important issues of our time is America's membership in the United Nations.

If you take comfort in the existence of the U.N.'s Human Rights Council, or any confidence that world human rights are protected by this Council, then you are deaf, dumb and blind, or you hate freedom.

Lorn Gunter at the Calgary Herald has put together a very important piece about the U.N.'s Human Rights Council. Gunter states the central issue:

The fascinating aspect for me is how many of Freedom House's "worst of the worst list" ["worst" human rights record] have also been elected by the UN to be voting members on its human rights council.

The U.N.'s inhumanity to man, woman and child goes on:

On May 21, 15 of the 47 UNHRC seats will come up for election or re-election. Along with UN Watch, an organization that analyzes UN activities, statements and programs, Freedom House has declared that five of the 15 candidate countries -- Bahrain, Gabon, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zambia -- are entirely unfit for membership because of their rights records. All but one of them (Bahrain) is already a member of the commission. This goes to show how useless the UN is at protecting human rights.

Please read this important piece at The Calgary Herald

Related Reading:
UN Weakens Freedom of Expression to Coddle Islam
United Nations Seals the Condemnation of Israel
UN Watch: Up Against UN Human Rights



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U.N. to Investigate Voters Against Obama

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook

U.N. racism investigator to visit the U.S. May 19-June 6, 2008.

The "investigator," of course, is the representative of a predominantly Muslim country, Senegal (h/t to No Sheeples Here).

This piece by Stephanie Nebehay at Reuters, reports:

"The special rapporteur will...gather first-hand information on issues related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance," a U.N. statement said on Friday.

Nebehay appears to offer her own opinion (unless quotation marks have gone astray):

Race has become a central issue in the U.S. election cycle because Sen. Barack Obama, the frontrunner in the battle for the Democratic nomination battle, stands to become the country's first African American president.

The U.N. Special Rapporteur has also "investigated" America's bias against Islam, our courts' application of the death penalty, (which, of course, is also biased, according to the U.N.), and our "hate" crimes (display of hangman's nooses).



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