The UN human rights commission is a joke.

[Wezil]

They are fighting with NYC over rent money the city claims is owed.

NEW YORK (AP) — The United Nations and its host city, noted for periodic quarrels over diplomatic deadbeats and parking scofflaws, are involved in another domestic spat — this time over $6 million in rent the city wants for unbuilt office and residential space near the U.N. headquarters.

More at the link http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/20...714146-ap.html

[Riesstiu IV]

The UN being evicted by the city of New York would be the ultimate example of how powerless it is.

[Dinner]

You're evicted you dead beats! Next time pay your rent.

[Tattila the Hun]

Eh, is the US still behind in it's payments to UN?

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
The UN being evicted by the city of New York would be the ultimate example of how powerless it is.

They still have a secondary seat in Switzerland. Also I'm sure Brussels would welcome them.

[FrostyBoy]

The U.N. doesn't suck. The people running the U.N. suck.

[C0ckney]

Originally posted by Heraclitus


They still have a secondary seat in Switzerland. Also I'm sure Brussels would welcome them.

indeed. brussels has a penchant for vast, ineffective and corrupt bureaucracies.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Heraclitus
They still have a secondary seat in Switzerland. Also I'm sure Brussels would welcome them.

And a third seat in Vienna.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III


Vienna.

WTF is "Vienna"?

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
You're confusing wars. You're talking about the one we're hopelessly bogged down in because a certain President whose name will go unmentioned failed to get the backing of the U.N.

The Coalition of the Willing was just us, Britain, and the countries we bribed.

The UK was bribed as well. Or maybe it was a stick rather than a carrot.

One of the relevant issues being renewal of nuclear deterrents, which the US supplies to the UK at a lower cost than the UK could get on its own.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by FrostyBoy
The U.N. doesn't suck. The people running the U.N. suck.

Nice try but no. The UN is fundamentally screwed.

[Arrian]

Pretty much, yeah. I'm not gonna get on a high horse about the HR commission given my country's behavior of late, but it's pretty clearly a joke.

-Arrian

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Heraclitus
WTF is "Vienna"?

It's called Wien. And it is your true capital, as I may add.

On topic: Petition to remove the redundant words "human rights commission" from the thread title.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
Eh, is the US still behind in it's payments to UN?

Why sink money in a bad investment when we already do so much of that thing with regards to so many other money handouts.

[Elok]

Now, if they had ETHICAL countries on the HR commission, they'd be able to pass a number of strongly phrased resolutions condemning various abuses. That would solve all our problems.