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UN News: Annan says UN has often failed to deliver on protecting and promoting human rights
2006-12-10

The United Nations has often failed to live up to its responsibility to promote human rights, with the ongoing killing and displacement of civilians in Darfur only the latest example of how the world has not improved its act, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today as he urged Member States, organizations and individuals to make the protection of rights a reality in every country.

In an address at the Time Warner Centre in New York to mark International Human Rights Day, which is being staged on Sunday, the outgoing Secretary-General said he had tried to make human rights central to all of the world bodyÂ’s work during his 10 years at the helm.
Posted by:gorb

#8  "The Mafia has often failed to live up to its responsibility to reduce the homicide rate, with the ongoing killing and displacement of kneecaps only the latest example of how the mob has not improved its act," said John Gotti, the "Teflon Don."
Posted by: exJAG   2006-12-10 16:51  

#7  Well, at least his son and assorted extended family members and business associates got rich, isn't that a small consolation?
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-12-10 16:36  

#6  And I often failed to quit smoking.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-12-10 16:25  

#5  Koffee has been making some rather scathing and pointed criticisms of the UN lately. Would it be rude to point out that he has been in charge all this time?
Posted by: SteveS   2006-12-10 14:06  

#4  I hope Annan burns in hell

If Kofi went to hell, it'd lower the quality of both hell and the UN.
Posted by: DMFD   2006-12-10 13:19  

#3  Â“How can an international community which claims to uphold human rights allow this horror to continue?” he asked.

Well, how about the international community ceasing to PRODUCE horror? Might that be a solution? Huh, guys? Hey, I know. Let's start with NOT raping little girls and setting up prostitution camps in exchange for food aid, like you keep doing.
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-12-10 11:02  

#2  

I hope Annan burns in hell.

Refugees poured into the UN compound. But the Dutch peacekeepers (Dutchbat) were overwhelmed and the Serbs confiscated their weapons. “From the moment I found those bodies, it was obvious to me that the Bosnian Serbs planned to kill all the men,” Rutten said. He watched horrified as Dutch troops guided the men and boys onto the Serb buses.

Posted by: Lanny Ddub   2006-12-10 08:57  

#1  If I ever meet this guy I am going to give him the open-handed slap of peace.
Posted by: Excalibur   2006-12-10 08:14  

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