UN condemns North Korea’s Human Rights Violations
The United Nations’ Human Rights Committee will bring a draft condemning North Korea’s human rights violations to the General Assembly for a final vote. In the draft along with singling out North Korea, the committee also condemned the human rights record of Iran and Myanmar. Cuba, probably feeling like they may be the next to be singled out for their human rights record, tried to rally some nations against the draft.
Before the vote, Cuba rallied members of the 118-nation Nonaligned Movement which it heads not to approve the draft resolution because it singled out North Korea.
However, that didn’t seem to do much because the draft passed easily with a 97-23 vote with only 60 abstentions. I really don’t know what the fuss is about; The result of the vote in the General Assembly will be non-binding and will most likely have no affect on the countries what-so-ever. The world already knows that human rights are constantly being ignored in those countries so its not like it will even raise awareness of the atrocities happening there.
UPDATE:
Yea, Iran was pretty angry with the UN’s panel including them in it’s draft so you know what they did? Sentence 50 college age kids to death because of “immorality.” Hmmm, for some reason I don’t think that will help their case.
