U.N. wants to remove standards for membership on Human Rights Commission
By: John Russell | Source: IRN NEWS
December 8, 2004 5:49PM EST
New revelations about the U.N. and its leadership are adding to the number of those who think the time has come to end U.S. membership and financial support for the organization. In a move that has U.S. officials at odds with world body a committee set up by Secretary-General Kofi Annan is recommending that all nations be admitted to the U.N.’s human rights commission. Also put forward is a policy that would disallow naming specific countries in connection to human rights abuses. The changes if carried through would place a country like Sudan, a country that practices genocide and slavery on the same moral level as the United States. Continuing membership in the U.N. is becoming harder to justify in the face of continuing scandal and institutional corruption.
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