Judith Apter Klinghoffer on Bolton, Arbour and Human Rights Day:
...when the Pakistanis approached her as representatives of the Organization of Muslim Countries currently meeting in Mecca to complain that the Danish newspaper publication of Muhammad cartoons represented an "encroachment on Islam," she did not remind them that offering a bounty for the head of the cartoonists is an "encroachment on the Danes lives" or that freedom of the press is also a human right. Oh, no. She promptly promised to investigate the racism of the Danish cartoons."
Moreover, "Arbour told reporters she chose the theme of "terrorists and torturers" to mark Saturday's annual commemoration of the U.N.'s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 because of concerns that the absolute ban on torture, once believed to be unassailable, is under attack." If you think her concern is with the kidnapping of "peace advocates' in Iraq or with concentration camps in North Korea, you will be mistaken. Her theme is designed to support the charge hurled by Islamists and their enablers that there is a moral equivalency between terror and the American led war on terror between rendition and torture...
Also see Captain's Quarters, I Guess The UN Has Closed Its Sex Camps:
...Eighteen months after reporters and investigators began finding evidence of exploitation of refugees in almost every camp run by the UN, Arbour makes an odd choice by attacking the United States. UN-run refugee camps have turned into seraglios for UN staffers, with women and even little girls forced to give sexual favors to staffers and peackeepers alike in order to get food and medicine. It routinely selects countries like Libya and Cuba to sit on and lead its committees on Human Rights, akin to putting the inmates in charge of the asylum. In some sick and twisted way, it makes sense for Arbour to use the occasion of Human Rights Day to attack America rather than focus on all the ways the UN has promoted and allowed human-rights abuses over the past decade or more.
Bolton has it right. This demonstrates the lack of serious thought for reform at the UN. Arbour should have spoken out of humility about the UN's proven track record of abusing those under its protection and what the organization intended to do to correct it...
