News Forum - Vietnam elected to UN Human Rights Council despite poor track record

[Thaiger]

Despite human rights groups calling for Vietnam to be excluded from the United Nations Human Rights Council, the country has won a three-year term in the Council. According to RFA.Org, the Southeast Asian nation received 145 of 189 valid votes, joining 13 other countries that were elected by members of the UN General Assembly in New York. Vietnam recently conducted a concentrated propaganda and lobbying drive to support its wishes to be elected to the Council. Critics, however, say that the country’s poor human rights record and diplomatic support for major rights violators abroad should have disqualified the one-party state. […]

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[Boddown]

The United Nations is an organization that is past its use by date. They let them join for the money just to keep going and wasting the world's time.

If they were serious half the crap in the world would be better of.

[ChrisS]

The UN empire building whilst actually achieving little if anything at all!

[Cabra]

The UNs credibility problem worsening... 

[Poolie]

UN credibility? An oxymoron, surely.

[Soidog]

The UN is far from perfect, but what’s the alternative? The performance of the UN is a direct reflection on the performance of individual meme we states

[Mazz11]

When rouge states can veto votes the ability to achieve anything of substance is very limited.

Edited October 13, 2022 by Mazz11