http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=26426snip - UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24 (IPS) - The 191-member U.N. General Assembly, the largely ignored policy-making body of the United Nations, is threatening to derail a slew of mostly Western European and U.S.-inspired resolutions condemning human rights violations.
snip - Speaking on behalf of the African Group, the representative of South Africa told delegates Wednesday: ''Our vote is not an attempt to condone human rights violations. It is a vote to counter the double standards (on human rights) by the European Union.''
According to Naseer H Aruri, chancellor professor (emeritus) of political science at the University of Massachusetts, '' The United States, it seems, is paying a heavy price for its contemptuous treatment of the United Nations and for its own transgressions of civil liberties, at home and abroad.”
snip - The U.N. General Assembly must now invoke its own 'Uniting for Peace Resolution' -- which superseded Security Council action on the crisis in South Korea in 1950 -- against the Bush administration and proceed to sanction it for its international legal nihilism, said Boyle, author of 'Destroying World Order'.
''Otherwise, the United Nations will go the same way the League of Nations did in the late 1930s, when it failed to act against (dictators such as) Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo and Stalin,'' he added.
check out the article - Duers...it is thought provoking....
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