what use is the un?
None at all, if this piece is any indication. And it is.
The war against free speech is advancing rapidly: Associated Press reported Thursday that “Muslim countries have won a battle to prevent Islam from being criticised during debates by the UN Human Rights Council.” Council President Doru-Romulus Costea explained that religious issues can be “very complex, very sensitive and very intense…This council is not prepared to discuss religious matters in depth, consequently we should not do it.” Henceforth only religious scholars would be permitted to broach them.
PaulW says:
The problem with the UN is that no one - including the U.S. - takes it seriously. Rather than be a place to attempt diplomacy it’s become a place to hold one’s hat while they go out on the town and make the NYPD’s traffic cops go crazy with unpaid parking tickets.
There’s a lot of things that need reforming in the UN’s structure: getting rid of that unitary veto power in the Security Council and expanding the number of permanent SC members to 9 (Japan, India, Brazil, Egypt) would be a good start; and humanitarian relief efforts such as food, agriculture and disaster response need greater enforcement and less corruption.