Wednesday, December 12, 2012

"It's like making an arsonist head of the fire department!"

1. Mauritania Elected Today as VP of UN Human Rights Council

What's so wrong about that?
According to a recent report by the Guardian, "up to 800,000 people in a nation of 3.5 million remain chattels," with power and wealth overwhelmingly concentrated among lighter-skinned Moors, "leaving slave-descended darker-skinned Moors and black Africans on the edges of society."

2. One Year Later, Despite Appeals, Syria Still on UNESCO Human Rights Committee

Despite having murdered tens of thousands of its own people, the Bashar al-Assad regime remains a full member of UNESCO's human rights committee, "and no one at UNESCO seems to care the slighest bit," said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer.

Read more here: http://www.unwatch.org/cms.asp?id=3649877&campaign_id=65378

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