UN Shields Islam (Hell, it shields all of our enemies!)

Posted on 19 December 2008 | No responses

Below is an excerpt from the full article at: LINK

Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:33 GMT

By Robert Evans

GENEVA, Dec 17 (Reuters) – The United Nations should stop passing resolutions, largely promoted by Islamic countries, calling for laws against “defamation of religion”, according to international experts on freedom of expression.

The four experts — from Africa, Europe, Latin America and the United Nations itself — said such laws were often used to shield religious leaders from criticism and to suppress religious minorities and non-believers.

U.N. divided over gay rights declaration

Posted on 19 December 2008 | No responses

By Patrick Worsnip

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly split over the issue of gay rights on Thursday after a European-drafted statement calling for decriminalization of homosexuality prompted an Arab-backed one opposing it.

Diplomats said a joint statement initiated by France and the Netherlands gathered 66 signatures in the 192-nation assembly after it was read out by Argentina at a plenary session. A rival statement, read out by Syria, gathered some 60.

The two statements remained open for further signatures, the diplomats said. No resolution was drafted on the issue and there was no voting, they added.

The division in the General Assembly reflected conflicting laws in the world at large. According to sponsors of the Franco-Dutch text, homosexuality is illegal in 77 countries, seven of which punish it by death.

The European Union-backed document, noting that the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was marked this month, said those rights applied equally to all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

It urged states “to take all the necessary measures, in particular legislative or administrative, to ensure that sexual orientation or gender identity may under no circumstances be the basis for criminal penalties, in particular executions, arrests or detention.”

But the opposing document said the statement “delves into matters which fall essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of states” and could lead to “the social normalization, and possibly the legitimization, of many deplorable acts including pedophilia.”

“We note with concern the attempts to create ‘new rights’ or ‘new standards,’ by misinterpreting the Universal Declaration and international treaties to include such notions that were never articulated nor agreed by the general membership,” it added.

This, it said, could “seriously jeopardize the entire international human rights framework.”

Muslim countries have for years opposed international attempts to legalize homosexuality.

U.S. officials said the United States had not signed either document. They said the broad framing of the language in the statement supporting decriminalization created conflicts with U.S. law, but gave no further details.

But Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen told reporters it was a “very special day at the U.N.”

“For the first time in history a large group of member states speaks out in the General Assembly against discrimination based on sexual orientation,” he said. “With today’s statement, this is no longer a taboo within the U.N.”

Syrian Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari told reporters sponsors of the statement had “cornered” other members by springing the declaration on them.

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Money Diverted to Feed Hungry — for Art

Posted on 19 November 2008 | No responses

Remember the $2,000,000 wall when you drop coins into the UNICEF can

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spain-outraged-by-cost-of-art-for-un-1015853.html

Spain outraged by cost of art for UN

The artist Miquel Barcelo works on the Human Rights Room at the UN headquarters in Geneva

By Elizabeth Nash in Madrid
Thursday, 13 November 2008

Spain is embroiled in a furious row over a wildly expensive artwork at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva for which the Spanish taxpayer has contributed millions of euros, including a sizeable tranche taken from the overseas aid budget.

The new Room of Human Rights and the Alliance of Civilisations, a spectacular cave dripping with multicoloured stalactites and described as the Sistine Chapel of the 21st century, was created by the artist Miquel Barcelo and is to be inaugurated on Tuesday by Spain’s King and Queen.

But the early plaudits for this vast space swiftly became cries of outrage as news emerged that the Spanish government was contributing €8m (£5.3m) from the public purse, including €500,000 lifted from the aid budget for developing countries.

The Foreign Minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, declined to specify the final cost. “Only fools confuse value and price. This project is a new way of doing diplomacy and foreign policy,” he said, adding that the taxpayer would contribute 40 per cent and a dozen Spanish companies raising the remainder.

About €11m has reportedly already been raised, which would mean Spain’s public purse is lighter by €4.4m. But at least one corporate sponsor has pulled out. And Spain missed the deadline for completion so it has had to pay for alternative accommodation for meetings and conferences.

The deputy Prime Minister, Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, fearful of the political fallout, has demanded full financial disclosure.

United Nations for the Gullible

Posted on 15 June 2008 | No responses

United Nations For the Gullible

 

The two videos below, are fairytale cartoons that the United Nations would like your believe. They are posted for their humor factor only. Any information posted in the cartoons and the truth are purely coincidence.

 

 

The UN — Hezbollah’s Friend

Posted on 15 June 2008 | No responses

United Nations Help’s Hezbollah

 

UNICEF works with terror-linked Islamics on children’s rights

Posted on 15 June 2008 | No responses

 

 

UNICEF works with terror-linked Islamics on children’s rights

 

The United Nations Children’s Fund has announced an agreement with an organization linked by the U.S. government to al-Qaida and the Taliban to work to improve services to children in Saudi Arabia.

 

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Selling US Visas

Posted on 15 June 2008 | No responses

U.N. Employee Arrested in Visa Fraud Scheme

 

No — this has nothing to do about Credit Cards — but with UN employees using the United Nations Letterhead to obtain Visas to enter the United States fr anyone willing to pay.

 

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The Rape of Innocents

Posted on 15 June 2008 | No responses

UN Peacekeepers Raping Children

 

I’m sure most people have by now heard of the raping of women and children by United Nation Forces in Africa. Instead of detailing it here, the below links are references to where you can read the details from those who’s researched the allegations.

• U.N. ‘peacekeepers’ rape women, children

• Michelle Malkin » THE U.N.’S RAPE OF THE INNOCENTS

• U.N. Faces More Accusations of Sexual Misconduct (washingtonpost.com)

• U.S. Measure Against Rape Fails at U.N. – New York Times

 

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