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Originally Posted by blankall
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What needs to be done is for major bodies like the United Nations to actually start holding up basic human rights. There needs to be real consequences for doing things like executing gays and minorities.
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United Nations has very little influence and power to do anything like that. It was created as a venue for all nations to be able to get together and talk about things regardless of current level of relationship between some of them. Its role and function changed quite a bit over the years. What we have now is a bit of a circus with UNHR Council chaired by a former diplomat from Gabon, a country notorious for HR abuses and Arab countries dominating all Assemblies with their anti-Israel agenda. Overall, UN is now a massive and hugely expensive pig-trough for political appointees and well-connected bureaucrats from all over the world. Very unfortunate.