The United Nations makes a mockery of human rights
The United Nations makes a mockery of human rights not just through its actions, but through the supposed human rights issues it chooses to focus on.
Volker Turk is the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, an arrogant title for an arrogant organization that does far more harm than good to global human rights. Turk is a pushover when it comes to the Chinese Communist Party and equates the Israeli government’s defensive war against terrorists (where Israel jumps through hoops to avoid civilian casualties) to Hamas’s terrorist acts.
What is Turk’s latest human rights complaint (that he can’t actually do anything about)? American police arresting violent antisemitic protesters on college campuses. “I am concerned that some of law enforcement actions across a series of universities appear disproportionate in their impacts,” Turk said in a statement.
That this is what the U.N.’s chief human rights official is focused on is laughable. These protests are obstructing university operations, with some restricting students from moving around campus. The students orchestrating these protests are doing so in support of terrorism. American policing is not the concern of the United Nations in any scenario, especially this one, because the U.S. is not a human rights abuser like China or Russia.
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But these trivial issues are what the United Nations likes to focus on, so it can pretend it does important work as it watches actual human rights abuses continue around the world while offering nothing but meek condemnations at best. One of the first things Turk complained about when he took the job was that Elon Musk bought Twitter, warning that he had “serious concerns” about the site and that it had a “responsibility to respect human rights.” After all, why go after China’s human rights record when you can talk about an American social media company?
That these are the kinds of things the “high commissioner for human rights” is focused on is proof that the United Nations does not treat human rights seriously, in case the makeup of the Human Rights Council wasn’t proof enough. The United Nations treats human rights like a punchline, which contributes to the degradation of global human rights and to the benefit of the world’s worst human rights abusers.
