The UN human rights commission( which is a joke) has once again passed a biased resolution against Israel. Canada alone stood against it. Good for us. Good for HM Canadian Government.UN Rights Council Condemns Israeli Action in GazaBy Lisa Schlein Geneva12 January 2009Palestinians who fled their homes eat at a United Nations school where they are sheltering in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, 12 Jan. 2009The 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council strongly condemns Israel for its military operation in Gaza and for what it said was gravely violating the human rights of the Palestinians. The resolution also calls for an independent fact-finding mission to investigate all violations of international human rights law. The resolution was drafted by Arab, Asian and African...
The African Union has done little, but shield the butcher mugabe from the world. Their recent meeting accomplished nothing for the people of Zimbabwe. Thabo Mbeki is an active collaborator of the butcher. There are some voices against the butcher notably Kenya and Botswana, but all in all the African Union has been pretty useless.Faced with an internationally condemned sham of an election in Zimbabwe, the 53-nation body should have been able to find within itself the moral courage and integrity to condemn Robert Mugabe and the clique that backs him for hijacking the country's presidential vote.Instead, the African Union merely issued a statement calling for a government of "national unity" in the troubled country. But because the AU was silent on the subject of who, exactly, would be in...