Today is United Nations Day

The United Nations Organisation works accross countries and territories to promote common progress, humanitarian, ecological and sociological concerns, and United Nations Day promotes the work undertaken by this group. The organisation recommends that the date should be a public holiday, though this is generally not the case.

Fairly typical of the UN - says a lot , nothing happens

 

A friend of Ms.T's works for the U.N. as a prosthetisist making, fitting & repairing artificial limbs for victims of wars & landmines. Wesley is always off somewhere interesting (if a tad dangerous)

 

In many aspects the UN is a complete joke. Last year there were 22 resolutions against Israel - just the one against Syria. This week the UN Human Rights Council (the biggest joke of the lot) praised the human rights record of Saudi Arabia (women as property, freedom of and from religion illegal, death penalty for changing ones mind about saudi ideology, women not allowed to drive, death penalty for "sorcery" etc etc)

 

I think the UN as a whole endeavours to do some good however it would appear that its efforts tend to be overshadowed by the Security Council deliberations which attract a lot of publicity.
As for Saudi Arabia I would suspect that anything aimed in their direction from the UN is dictated by the State Department in Washington.

 

I doubt even the US think Saudi Arabia has a human rights policy worth praising. Most of the praise came from other places where human rights are regarded as something other people do or where the last word on human rights was written down 1400 years ago by caravan raiders

 

Yep. Nice regime. But they're a trading "partner".... We wouldn't want to upset em by saying anything remotely negative about em.... Double standards are alive n kicking in 21st century...

 

The UN also organises the Durban anti-racism conferences. Most civilised countries boycott them now after they became a forum for virulent anti-semitism

 

They sell us oil (found using western technology, pumped using western technology, transported using western technology) and in return they spend billions on western weapons (which they refuse to use, constantly demanding the west intervene in the Middle East) and they fund wahhabi ideology indoctrination centres all over the west in towns, cities and universities

 

I just wish that the UN would do something about the somali pirates they collected somewhere in the region of £25,000,000.00 in ransom payments last year , and where do you suppose that money went to , well my guess is al qaeda linked Al shabaab terror attacks , of which we will see many more

 

I am not sure what the UN can do about that other than getting an international fleet to shell the ports they operate from into oblivion.

About 15 years ago I spent a weekend yacht racing on the Solent, the skipper of our yacht was an old hand from the British Navy in the 50's - he was on very fast intercept boats in the South China Sea looking for pirates, if they found some and captured them they were taken to the nearest port (Singapore usually) and handed over to the local authorities for arrest and trial - which generally consisted of the pirates having weights tied to them and thrown into deep water docks as the British boat sailed into the sunset