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Wednesday 19 March 2014

UNHRC and its unholy Evolution.


The United Nation's Human Right Commission/Council (UNHRC/HRC) was a replacement of the previously known assembly of the UN called Council of Human Rights (UNCHR/CHR). It was made an independent assembly where 47 different members would meet and discuss the rights of humans. It was designed for one purpose and one purpose only, "To protect and administer the Human Rights" according to the "Human Rights Declaration" signed in the 1960s.It was the duty of UNHRC to protect the rights of Humans and to make sure that no injustice is done to a being "across the globe". Racism, Sexism, religious and sectarian discrimination was to be abolished and a collateral system was to be made.
   Soon, the UNHRC was afflicted by the UN's P5. The Veto system came in the HRC and things started to change. The P5 now ruled the Human Rights. They Human Rights were now under their command and perspective. What was made an independent and a unified assembly was now just like every other general assembly "under the reign." UNHRC was based on the constitution that it would always serve the rights originally designed in the 60s and that it would help equality to prosper in the world. But then the tidal wave came and pretty much like every other thing, the constituency was amended and UNHRC was now just a so called "independent assembly" which now worked as a puppet of the P5 and the European Union of the United Nations. 




      Today we see a new phase of this assembly. The assembly made in the 60s is no longer. We still call it the committee of Human Rights but is this committee serving its original promise? Why is this Committee not working in states like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Myanmar? Why are all these places where ruthless killing and Violation of every single article of the human right declaration is being done over looked? Why is the Killing of Afghans in the name of "WMD" applauded but nothing is carried out against Palestine where these "weapons of Mass Destruction" are present and openly kept. Why the oppression of minorities in Myanmar and Syria is over looked? Why is the Sectarian Violence in Iran Ignored, why? Why are the merciless acts of USA in Iraq not condemned? But what is looked upon is the long going war which is a matter of USA's reputation between Palestine and Israel being scratched. Is Israel-Palestine violence the only problem present in the world, or is it the only threat to the reputation of the United States of America?
   UNHRC is no more an independent assembly but a puppet of the P5 working not for the world's benefit but the benefit of the P5. People are dying in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Syria. Borderline killings are being done. Produce of weapons from across the borders are being provided for a Civil war in Syria but UNHRC doesn't care. Where is the Human Right's Declaration now? Where is the assembly that under the original constituency swore to protect the human rights? Where are the signatures of the 47 men who witnessed the making of an independent assembly for the Human Rights? It is unfortunate to see that the universal assembly which once worked for the Rights is now not independent but a slave itself. An assembly which went out to end injustice and inequality is now the core of it. What the world needs is a system which is pure, which really means the well-being of our world. UNHRC was once the hero we deserved, but it's not the hero we need now. Today we know what UNHRC has transpired to be and it is now ours to decide that, is this assembly worthy of something as precious as our trust?




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