A Paean to Humanitarianism

A Diabolical Joke

Australian columnist, Tim Blair writes in The Telegraph:

The UN recently decided that Israel was the number one violator of women’s rights in the world today. And then the UN appointed the Islamic Republic of Iran to the executive board of the UN’s Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.

UPDATE. Anne Bayefsky in 2008:

What we are seeing now is that universal human rights are being undercut by the very organisation that was created to protect them.
It can’t stop genocide in Sudan, it’s can’t stop the butchery that’s going on in Zimbabwe or get Aung San Suu Kyi out of Myanmar. And civilisation is threatened, we can’t be sanguine about it, we can’t sit around waiting and hoping that one day the UN will get it right.

Seven years on, the UN is making things worse.

The United Nations sits as a bloated Shelob upon  the shores of Turtle Bay, sucking the lifeblood out of humanity.
  Its deliberations and decisions resemble a Monty Pythonesque parody of the Goons.  It is a colossal waste of tax payers money.  Nonetheless, New Zealand slavers and quivers over the United Nations like Mr Collins fawning over Lady Catherine De Bourgh.  It is not just embarrassing: it is a humiliating disgrace.

Guess who is the number one violator of women’s rights in the world today?  Israel.  Violating the rights of Palestinian women.  At least that is the view of the UN’s top women’s rights body, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).  CSW ends its annual meeting on Friday, March 20 by condemning only one of the 193 UN member states for violating women’s rights – Israel.

Not Syria. Where government forces routinely employ rape and other sexual violence and torture against women as a tactic of war. Where in 2014 the Assad regime starved, tortured and killed at least 24,000 civilians, and three million people – mostly women and children – are refugees.

Not Saudi Arabia. Where women are physically punished if not wearing compulsory clothing, are almost entirely excluded from political life, cannot drive, cannot travel without a male relative, receive half the inheritance of their brothers, and where their testimony counts for half that of a man’s.

Not Sudan.  Where domestic violence is not prohibited.  There is no minimum age for “consensual” sex.  The legal age of marriage for girls is ten. 88% of women under 50 have undergone female genital mutilation. And women are denied equal rights in marriage, inheritance and divorce.

Not Iran. Where every woman who registered as a presidential candidate in the last election was disqualified.  “Adultery” is punishable by death by stoning.  Women who fight back against rapists and kill their attackers are executed. The constitution bars female judges. And women must obtain the consent of their husbands to work outside the home.

In fact, not only is there no possibility that the UN Commission on the Status of Women will criticize Iran, Iran is an elected member of CSW.  Sudan – whose president has been indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity – is currently a CSW Vice-Chair. [Fox News]

But, be of good cheer, fellow New Zealanders.  Your hard-earned tax dollars pays for this splendiferous paragon of humanitarian enlightenment.  Babelism has never looked more seductively attractive.

The United Nations is a suppurating carbuncle on the backside of humanity.  Would that New Zealand might  come to its senses and extricate itself from the oozing excrescence polluting Turtle Bay.  Doubtless our resident Progressives would howl in dismay at the mere suggestion.  That in itself would provide sterling endorsement of an exit.

Sadly, no country on earth at the moment is sufficiently Christian to take such a principled stand.  Another couple of centuries, however, might provide a very different outcome.