Wednesday, June 20, 2007
The excellent NGO Monitor now has a blog. See their top post as I type this: Durban 2009: Another Travesty Nears? Libya Set to Head UN Anti-Racism Conference.
As NGO Monitor has reported, in November, 2006, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to convene a 2009 follow-up to the World Conference Against Racism. The follow-up event will yet again take place in Durban. This item represents NGO Monitor's ongoing monitoring of events and preparation leading up to Durban 2009.In a June 15th, 2007 press release, UN Watch, a non-governmental organization based in Geneva whose mandate is "to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter," announced that well-known human rights abuser Libya will be the Chair of the preparatory meetings June 25th-29th in Geneva for the UN anti-racism conference to be held in 2009, and may be selected as overall Chair for the Durban conference...
Here we go again.
Why are they doing this? Don't they know that they're destroying their own credibility?
Even many people on the left have contempt for Qaddafi. Maybe they're subtly trying to undermine the World Conference, since so many countries probably feel uncomfortable with it. If the World Confernce becomes a laughingstock, then maybe it will be discontinued or just fade into irrelevance, which would be a convenient outcome for many governments.