Syria on Human Rights Council - Obama Administration OK with it.

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The Obama administration seems to have to have put itself in the firing line over its handling of the crisis in Syria by not stopping the Mideast country from being elected to a UNESCO committee that deals with human rights.
Critics say that granting Syria a seat on the committee, a consensus decision that happened without much fanfare at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris earlier this month, has enabled the Assad regime to claim it's doing nothing wrong and has the moral authority to pass judgment on others.


The U.S. sits on the 58-member UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) executive board, which through consensus allowed the Arab regional group's candidate, Syria, to be re-elected to the Committee on Conventions and Recommendations.
The U.S. Mission to UNESCO forwarded Fox News’ request for a comment to the Bureau of International Organization Affairs (IO) at the State Department as to why the U.S. went along with the consensus, given Syria's ongoing human rights violations. The IO spokesman told Fox News that he would not have “any on the record comment.”


“If the United States cannot take a moral stand against barbaric thugs like Assad, we have lost our way."
According to Syrian rights groups, the death toll in Syria has climbed to nearly 4,000, with thousands more injured and as many as 10,000 detained by security forces.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/1...zations-human-rights-committee/#ixzz1eZpJgYrV


I think it is because Syria does not have much oil at all...so their citizens mean less than those of Libya, an oil rich nation.

 

[DucatiMonster696]

The UN is one funny comedic endeavor of shit and giggles. As for Obama? Well come on anyone who bought into the bullshit of "Hope and Change" being peddled by a 3 year junior senator needs to be kicked in the ass.