It may not make the papers, but there are dissenting voices when a United Nations committee pontificates about how to make the world a better place. We constantly hear the drumbeat of population control. Spero News reports as follows on the statement of the Vatican delegate to the United Nations on birth control. "The great challenge to development is not the demographic explosion, but from irresponsible...
Laurie writes: ‘Great isn't it! I sign your petition and sent the link to friends, liberal freethinkers (like me, I thought) requesting they consider adding their names. I might as well have asked them to join the BNP! If it's not that then it's a stony silence and clear indication that there is to be no discussion on this matter. Having read your last email I can see this is going to be your...
RubinReportsBarry Rubin It’s bad enough that lunatics are running the asylum but to make matters worse they’re charging us rent! UN General Assembly chaired by Libya; EU chaired by Sweden; UN Human Rights committee run by Sudan. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received as a great statesman by the UN after stealing the election and repressing demonstrators. President Barack Obama’s...
The Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression. The newly-minted American policy was rolled out at the latest session of the UN Human Rights Council, which ended in Geneva on Friday. American diplomats were there for the first time as full Council members and intent on making friends. President Obama chose...
The un-American Obama administration backs Muslim speech restrictions at the U.N. We read: "The Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression. The newly-minted American policy was rolled out at the latest session of the UN Human Rights Council, which ended in Geneva on Friday. American diplomats were...
Yes, you cannot make this stuff up.. The Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on Durban Follow-up started its seventh session on Monday. The group was established following the 2001 Durban Conference with a mandate to implement its Declaration and Program of Action. Like many other ill-fated UN anti-racism initiatives, the IGWG it has been exploited by abusive regimes that are hostile to the very...
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. It is the bedrock on which we have built our republic. Freedom of speech....
We kid you not. The new resolution, championed by the Obama administration, has a number of disturbing elements. It emphasizes that "the exercise of the right to freedom of expression carries with it special duties and responsibilities . . ." which include taking action against anything meeting the description of "negative racial and religious stereotyping ." It also purports to...
Successor to the Nazis Tishrei 13, 5770, 01 October 09 03:36 by Prof. Paul Eidelberg (Israelnationalnews.com) On November 7, 1975, the United Nations endowed the PLO with observer status in the General Assembly. Three days later, the Assembly adopted Resolution 3379 which states that "Zionism is Racism." A profound and deadly irony underlies these resolutions. Recall that the UN was created...
Who would have thought the day would come when American diplomats would join with human rights abusers from places like Cuba, Egypt and China - places where free speech doesn’t exist - to pass a new resolution limiting speech. But now it’s happened, and the Obama administration did it in the name of making friends in the international community. Nothing like throwing our basic rights under...
The United States along with Egypt championed legislation this week at the UN that protects radical Islam and inhibits freedom of speech. Anne Bayefsky from EYE on the UN discussed this treaty at The Weekly Standard : The new resolution, championed by the Obama administration, has a number of disturbing elements. It emphasizes that "the exercise of the right to freedom of expression carries with...
(ChattahBox)— Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a rabid Holocaust denier, who frequently calls for the annihilation of the State of Israel. During his recent speech before a United Nations meeting last month, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denounced Israel’s “genocide, barbarism and racism,” as members of delegations from Britain, the U.S. and others walked out of the room [...]...
This morning's Guardian reports that the Schools secretary, Ed Balls has ordered a review of provisions to tackle racism in schools that will consider whether to ban BNP members from becoming teachers. In my view, for reasons I have explained before , this would be a retrograde step: Objectionable as they are the BNP are a legitimate party. We must fight them by exposing the bankruptcy of their ideas,...
Since my article Bring Back Jagannath Azad’s Pakistan Anthem published in The Hindu on Sept 22 (slightly shorter version first published by Dawn on Sept 19) I have learnt that my ignorance on the matter was all the more deplorable given the previously published material that I have since come across. Besides Zaheer Kidvai’s recollections in his blog , that I mentioned in my blog post later...
Hats off to the Maoists in Nepal for taking the caste question to the UN level. This is in sharp contrast to the stance taken by the Indian government all through. During the World Conference Against Racism in Durban (2001) India had opposed equating the caste system with racism and the then Attorney General Soli [...]
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