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The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has laid bare its double standards by investigating human rights violations allegedly committed by Venezuela, but not by Israel, Alexander Gabriel Yanez Deleuze, Venezuela’s envoy to the UN in Geneva, told Sputnik.
"The HRC has approved 10 areas of action against Venezuela and allocated $10 million for this. At the same time, you will not find a single mandate that would sound like an ‘investigation of human rights violations by the Israeli government’,” the diplomat stressed.
“There is a mission that deals with human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, but it does not explicitly mention Israel. This proves the HRC’s double standards," Deleuze stressed.
The Russian Permanent Mission to the United Nations said that Russia opposed efforts to politicize the UN Human Rights Council and condemned its use to exert pressure on Venezuela.
Can the UN survive torching its credibility like this? Eventually nations will form their own League of Nations and stop showing up.
The ‘winners’ of WW3 will get to build a new UN.
League of Irradiated Nations
Very cool
That’s a great question. If the UN can not be reformed as the world becomes increasingly multipolar, we may see pro-multipolar institutions like the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization gradually displace it.
For individual nations there isn’t much reason to boycott the UN. It just leaves a (minor) amount of power on the table and if it is a major country (on the security council) doing so it gives the imperialist bloc even more leeway, such as when the USSR boycotted the UN because theye excluded the PRC and this gave imperialists carte blanche to label their genocidal invasion of Korea a UN police action" as if it wasn’t a blatant violation of the UN charter and od course just evil in itself.
An alternative would more reasonably emerge first, taking power with it, allowing the UN to wither. Obviously BRICS is not really much of a geopolitical body like the theoretical UN could be, but side structures like these could be turned into such things over time.
I think all of this should be understood as an expression of power more than a powerful thing in and of itself. The UN is, in reality, more a form of empire-serving liberal PR, legitimation, and way to whitewash military presence. As empire itself is undermined, so too will be the UN.
Ive been hoping for this for years; it’s still ludicrous to me that not only one of the most powerful nations on earth, but a security council member is actually invading and intervening in UN member and observer states on a whim and making this choice on their own with zero consequences.
Like a gathering of sheep and the ones in charge are hyenas. An institution that protects one group but doesn’t bind them, and binds the rest but doesn’t protect them. An entirely unequal relationship.