Saudi Arabia Wants to Head the UN Human Rights Council

[Shofercia]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 67783.html

Saudi Arabia is reportedly planning to make a bid to head the United Nations' Human Rights Council, in a move that has been described as the "final nail in the coffin for the credibility" of the HRC. Reports of the bid come just days after Saudi Arabia posted a job advertisement for eight new executioners. This year it has already put 85 people to death in what has been branded by Amnesty International a "macabre spike" from the 87 people it killed in total last year. The country will move to assume lead control over the HRC after 2016 when the presidency is awarded to a new nation.

Yes, I checked, it wasn't posted on April 1st. So, what does NSG think of Saudi Arabia as the head of the UNHRC?

I, for one, think that it'll be hilarious, and I'm already planning a series of comedies including:

1. Yes UNHRC, women can be in the driver's seat!
2. All men are created equal! And women aren't men!
3. Once upon a time in bar that serves only virgin alcohol...
4. Iran bad. Iran very, very, very bad. UNHRC says so, and that Saudis are a head is a mere coincidence! Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, in the name of Human Rights.

Which one would you like to see?

On a more serious note, UNHRC needs to be someone like New Zealand. Or Switzerland. Someone who actually has some credibility on the issue. Although if corporations are humans, I'm wary of Switzerland's role; they might have an anti-organic bias.

[Republic of the Cristo]

no

[Big Brain City]

The Saudis getting on that council would be a mockery of human rights, the UNHRC and the UN itself.
Someone has to stop them.

[Dooom35796821595]

The Saudis getting on that council would be a mockery of human rights, the UNHRC and the UN itself.
Someone has to stop them.

Looks like a job for team America: world police!

[Big Brain City]

The Saudis getting on that council would be a mockery of human rights, the UNHRC and the UN itself.
Someone has to stop them.

Looks like a job for team America: world police!

Unfortunately, Saudi Arabia is on Team America.
Guess we'll have to call in Team...some other country.

[Autem Galacticus Nexum]

There is a probability that if SA heads the human rights council, they'll actually change their ways.

probability

[Dooom35796821595]

Looks like a job for team America: world police!

Unfortunately, Saudi Arabia is on Team America.
Guess we'll have to call in Team...some other country.

Team Iran: Middle East police?

[Luziyca]

Didn't they make a new one to stop this from happening?

[Empire of Narnia]

Good for them. They deserve it.

[Petrokovia]

Oh, man. I hope not. If this happens, the UN will lose my respect.

[Giovenith]

Yeah no.

[Ganos Lao]

The Saudis getting on that council would be a mockery of human rights, the UNHRC and the UN itself.
Someone has to stop them.

In before "What? You don't like non-whites asserting themselves?!" a la the Mugabe thread.

[Big Brain City]

Unfortunately, Saudi Arabia is on Team America.
Guess we'll have to call in Team...some other country.

Team Iran: Middle East police?

Maybe...maybe...

The Saudis getting on that council would be a mockery of human rights, the UNHRC and the UN itself.
Someone has to stop them.

In before "What? You don't like non-whites asserting themselves?!" a la the Mugabe thread.

Watdafuq? Who would say such shit? Are they idiots who just mindlessly defend someone they perceive as the underdog without realizing that said "underdog" is in fact quite the opposite?

[Neo Telangana]

Oh, man. I hope not. If this happens, the UN will lose my respect.

People still have respect for the UN?

[Petrokovia]

Oh, man. I hope not. If this happens, the UN will lose my respect.

People still have respect for the UN?

Good point.

[Big Brain City]

Oh, man. I hope not. If this happens, the UN will lose my respect.

People still have respect for the UN?

I don't have much, as it's a feckless organization and I'm pretty sure you're about to tell me that North Korea is responsible for the peacekeeping commission or something.

[Rio Cana]

You got to be kidding.

[Glorious KASSRD]

This makes no sense. Like, at all.

[Ganos Lao]

Watdafuq? Who would say such shit? Are they idiots who just mindlessly defend someone they perceive as the underdog without realizing that said "underdog" is in fact quite the opposite?

They feel Mugabe is standing up against the 'imperialism of the West', etc.

It's that old "we don't care that he kills his own people; we just care he uses rhetoric we like that he doesn't really care for" chestnut again.

Hell, we had ISIS sympathizers, even one who said he was a member on his sig, posting on the ISIS megathread.

We also had two DPRK supporters....

I honestly think it's people just wanting to seem hip and cool. I mean, bashing the West/America is hip and cool, right? And no, I'm not saying either is perfect, but come on now....

[Aalmark]

Haha, that's like the Catholic Church heading a group to prevent child molestation.

[Bering]

Sigh, Saudi Arabia, no, just no.
Shouldn't there be a rule that you can only be violating so many human rights to be on the council? (I would say none, but I am worried about how many nations would actually qualify to serve to begin with considering most countries have their own little issues here and there with it).

[Petrokovia]

Watdafuq? Who would say such shit? Are they idiots who just mindlessly defend someone they perceive as the underdog without realizing that said "underdog" is in fact quite the opposite?

They feel Mugabe is standing up against the imperialism of the West, etc.

It's that old "we don't care that he kills his own people; we just care he uses rhetoric we like that he doesn't really care for" chestnut again.

Hell, we had ISIS sympathizers, even one who said he was a member on his sig, posting on the ISIS megathread.

We also had two DPRK supporters....

I honestly think it's people just wanting to seem hip and cool. I mean, bashing the West/America is hip and cool, right? And no, I'm not saying either is perfect, but come on now....

If bashing the West is hip and cool, I must be a megahipster, 'cause I hate hte entire world! Everyone sucks!

Humor aside, I agree it seems that a lot of people tend to just follow someone they like, and try to handwave bad things they do. And that really sucks, because a lot of times, it's really bad things that should be discussed, and people continue to say "nope IDK."

[Aalmark]

Oh, man. I hope not. If this happens, the UN will lose my respect.

The UN, while seemingly a good idea, has no respect from me. They've shown a complete lack of competence and care for human rights abuses in the most volatile of places, yet jump on Canada for "first nation issues" or Israel for "teh apartheid." Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous. The organization is incapable of doing anything other than hopping on the politically correct bandwagon every now and then while shouting at groups "fuck yourself, haha!"

[Petrokovia]

Sigh, Saudi Arabia, no, just no.
Shouldn't there be a rule that you can only be violating so many human rights to be on the council? (I would say none, but I am worried about how many nations would actually qualify to serve to begin with considering most countries have their own little issues here and there with it).

The more I think about it, the more I agree that most nations might not fit the 'none' bill. Though I would still have a high standard. I'm kind of a fan of Scandinavia, myself.

[Petrokovia]

Oh, man. I hope not. If this happens, the UN will lose my respect.

The UN, while seemingly a good idea, has no respect from me. They've shown a complete lack of competence and care for human rights abuses in the most volatile of places, yet jump on Canada for "first nation issues" or Israel for "teh apartheid." Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous. The organization is incapable of doing anything other than hopping on the politically correct bandwagon every now and then while shouting at groups "fuck yourself, haha!"

Well, I dislike the actual UN, but I have always like the idea. Though yes, in practice, the UN acts nothing like its supposed to.

When I say lose my respect, I mean lose the 1.2 of gram of respect I have left for them.