The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing dealt last week with the United Nations Human Rights Council performance. The newly named council was formed last year to replace the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. Last month, the Senate committee approved legislation proposed by Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., to end U.S. funding of the commission. Coleman pointed out that the watchdog group's almost exclusive focus on Israel and its failure to investigate other countries made it a "disgrace" and that the council "has essentially one issue on the agenda: Israel. You have got countries like North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe, where you have state-sponsored brutality, and what we have from the council is deafening silence."
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We need to do more than revamp the Human Rights Council...we need a full overhaul of the United Nations itself. Specifically it needs to be based on the principle of democracy and less at the whim of dictatorships...
http://www.UnitedDemocraticNations.org
And the last time I checked, Cuba is still being run by a dictator.
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