U.S. welcomes UN investigator's racism probe
Mon 19 May 2008
UNITED NATIONS, May 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. envoy to the United Nations on Monday welcomed the visit of a special U.N. human rights investigator to probe racism but said the Human Rights Council should focus on "real problems" elsewhere.
The United Nations has said Doudou Diene will meet federal and local officials, lawmakers and judicial authorities during his visit, which runs from Monday to June 6. The focus of the visit is racism, which has become an issue in this year's U.S. presidential election campaign.
"We don't think (the visit) is needed but we welcome the visit," U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters after a meeting of the U.N. Security Council.
"I think it would be important for the Human Rights Council to spend its time on real problems and the problems of violations of human rights in countries that are notorious for their violations of human rights," Khalilzad said.
Among the notorious violators of human rights are North Korea, Iran and Belarus, he said.
Diene routinely visits countries to assess racism. Race has developed into a central issue in the United States ahead of November's presidential election because Sen. Barack Obama, the frontrunner in the Democratic nomination battle, could become the country's first black president.
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Diene, a Senegalese lawyer who has served in the independent post since 2002, will report his findings to the U.N. Human Rights Council next year.
However, the United Nations has almost no clout when it comes to U.S. domestic affairs and is widely perceived by many as interfering. The United States is not among the 47 member states of the Geneva-based forum, but has observer status.
In a report last year Diene said Islamophobia had grown worldwide since the Sept. 11 2001 attacks on the United States, carried out by al-Qaeda militants.
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So, let's see - nothing else going on in the world, let's go to the US.
Ethiopia - 3.2 million people are about to starve
China - tens of thousands dead and missing, thousands will be starving
Burma - a military junta refuses aid to the people who are dying and starving, over a hundred thousand dead.
Sierra Leone - oppression of the people by a government in place due to foreign powers
Sudan- thousands enslaved each month or killed that qualifies as genocide except to the UN
Congo - a civil war that border on geneocide
Somalia - starvation and hunger on a scale unequaled by any but Ethiopia.
And the UN wants to come to the US to check on racism.
Feckless fools foolishly and flippantly flopping about trying to embarass the US and Bush more specifically.
47 Members on the Council, created in 2006 after the Human Rights Commission was discredited by the US. Now comes our comeuppance.
Angola 2010
Azerbaijan 2009
Bangladesh 2009
Bolivia 2010
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2010
Brazil 2008
Cameroon 2009
Canada 2009
China 2009
Cuba 2009
Djibouti 2009
Egypt 2010
France 2008
Gabon 2008
Germany 2009
Ghana 2008
Guatemala 2008
India 2010
Indonesia 2010
Italy 2010
Japan 2008
Jordan 2009
Madagascar 2010
Malaysia 2009
Mali 2008
Mauritius 2009
Mexico 2009
Netherlands 2010
Nicaragua 2010
Nigeria 2009
Pakistan 2008
Peru 2008
Philippines 2010
Qatar 2010
Republic of Korea 2008
Romania 2008
Russian Federation 2009
Saudi Arabia 2009
Senegal 2009
Slovenia 2010
South Africa 2010
Sri Lanka 2008
Switzerland 2009
Ukraine 2008
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2008
Uruguay 2009
Zambia 2008
And of the 47, 27 have human rights abuses that would qualify as encyclopedic definitions of racism. They are rampant, often, widespread, abuses of civil liberties, and human rights. Instead, the Council sends a member to the US. What a bloody joke.
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