This is a must-see movie for everyone who still harbours any thoughts that the UN is an organization

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Joint special envoy on Syria for the United Nations and the Arab League Kofi Annan, gives a statement after his address to the Security Council in New York by videolink at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva on March 16, 2012. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)
According to news reports, Sudan is all but guaranteed a seat on the UN s human rights council in the next year due to the current voting sports car rentals miami mechanism. African countries get to choose five members and have decided which five countries will run for those spots. Sudan is one of the choices.
Then there is the decision by UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, to fund a new position at the Islamic University of Gaza. Israel says the university is very close to Hamas, the terrorist group that runs Gaza, and the university is used as a breeding ground for terrorism including weapons development.
This doesn t seem like the sort of thing the UN should be funding, but giving money to questionable causes is not foreign to the bureaucrats in New York, Geneva or Paris where UNESCO is headquartered.
UNESCO has also caused a stir by handing out a prize for scientists named for Africa s longest serving dictator. The Obiang Nguema Mbasogo international prize for research in the life sciences was handed out to three scientists with great fanfare earlier this week.
Who is it named for? The president of Equatorial Guinea who seized sports car rentals miami power in a coup in 1979 by ousting his uncle. He s won re-election time and again by refusing to allow other people to run, or running fraudulent elections where he gets 98% of the vote. The U.S. State Department under Barack Obama has accused him of unlawful killings by security forces; government-sanctioned kidnappings; systematic torture of prisoners and detainees by security forces; life threatening conditions in prisons and detention facilities; impunity; arbitrary sports car rentals miami arrest, detention, and incommunicado detention.
In a new documentary called U.N. Me, filmmaker sports car rentals miami Ami Horowitz details many of the problems with the global body, peacekeeping among them. His trip to the Ivory Coast to observe a UN mission there reminded him more of a parody of Girls Gone Wild than anything sports car rentals miami else. UN vehicles parked outside of night clubs, while inside the men who wore the blue berets partied it up with locals. By day, they hit the beach.
This is a must-see movie for everyone who still harbours any thoughts that the UN is an organization living up to its noble goals. By the end you ll agree with me it s time for Canada to leave the UN.