Senator want to revoke U.S. funding for U.N. Human Rights Council

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON – A congressional delegate to the United Nations is pushing for the United States to cut off funding for the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying the watchdog group's focus on Israel and failure to investigate other countries made it a “disaster.”

Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said Wednesday the council “has essentially one issue on its agenda – Israel. You've got countries like North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe where you have state-sponsored brutality, and what we have is deafening silence.”

A Senate Foreign Relations Committee panel will take up the Human Rights Council's performance at a hearing Thursday. The committee last month approved legislation Coleman proposed to end U.S. funding of the council. The House last month approved similar legislation by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.
Coleman, who along with Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., represents Congress in the U.S. delegation to the U.N., is a longtime critic of the U.N. Boxer also supported the funding cut off when the Foreign Relations Committee approved the bill.



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[ixion]

1. yeah, or maybe Norm is concerned they'll investigate us, too

since we're right up there with Israel on Human Rights abuse. :-(

[indepat]

3. But, but, but only the bad guys in black hats practice state-sponsored brutality, right?

[razors edge]

7. No,

we are stuck in a turban type fashion time-loop for now.

[Mass]

2. Barbara Boxer agreed? Who else? Is there a list of the senators who supported that?\nt

[rodeodance]

4. i think 99% of congresscritters agree with all that Israel does. I was

shocked when even Feingold said israel had the right to defend itself during the last conflick with Lebonon.

[barb162]

9. Don't nations have the right to defend themselves?

What am I missing or what are you missing?

[ohio2007]

5. Isn't the chairman of human rights council from Sudan?

Or is a Libyan chairman?

[bemildred]

6. Impotent posturing. The UNHRC does not depend on US funding. nt

[Donnachaidh]

8. Al Franken's making him nervous

Gotta get that face time in before Al blows him out of his cushy job.

[barb162]

10. Sudan, China, Iran, Zimbabwe...no problema?

"Member states abandoned their responsibility to defend suffering people in countries such as Sudan, Burma, Zimbabwe, and Cuba and instead devoted their energies to attacking Israel.” "

I think I'll go along with Boxer and Coleman on this.