Another UN mission

[Jersay]

Jersay, well the UN may not be the strongist orginization but in part it is due to the fact that the main super power in the world consistently attacks nations unilaterly, which under mines the authoirty of the United Nations at every turn. If the Americans respected international law and the United nations it would abid by the rule of law and the United Nations rulings.


Also ITN tends to ignore all of the humantarian and peace keeping missions done by the UN. Just because the United Nations didn't use false information to go to war with Iraq like the USA doesn't make the united nations a joke, it makes the USA a rogue nation for being a aggressor nation in a war which had little merit and was currently being resolved in the United Nations to a point.

Thanks Finder. Yeah well I guess when you hate the U.N you just can't see the good it does.

 

[I think not]

That's a very interesting post Finder, I see you're unable to explain what I mentioned, so of course you change the subject. And the subject always has to include the US. The problem with you leftists is that you do not understand the UN is comprised of 191 nations, one nation does not have the power to sway everybody, as it was evidenced by the Iraq war.

This conversation is about the inept UN. Sure the UN has done good, I never denied this. But when someone points out any wrongdoing, he's automatically thrown into the hate UN camp. I do not see why you defend the undefendable, I really don't.

I have yet to hear from you two a solid explanation as to why the UN permits states that have defied the Declaration of Human Rights to chair in key positions such as human rights, womens rights etc....

I'm waiting.

 

[Jersay]

That's a very interesting post Finder, I see you're unable to explain what I mentioned, so of course you change the subject. And the subject always has to include the US. The problem with you leftists is that you do not understand the UN is comprised of 191 nations, one nation does not have the power to sway everybody, as it was evidenced by the Iraq war.

This conversation is about the inept UN. Sure the UN has done good, I never denied this. But when someone points out any wrongdoing, he's automatically thrown into the hate UN camp. I do not see why you defend the undefendable, I really don't.

I have yet to hear from you two a solid explanation as to why the UN permits states that have defied the Declaration of Human Rights to chair in key positions such as human rights, womens rights etc....

I'm waiting.

Because it is an organization that represents all. It should have guidelines for some organizations and the end of political battles of ideology but it doesn't. The COuncil that was just created isn't perfect and what should have been unanimous vote by the general assembly and a clean Human rights record for a certain period of years but it leaves open the value.

With any organization that has 191 different ideologies it is going to have difficulty at the level that can be seen in the news. However, the thousands of workers who cite Human rights and present it have their stories rarely told.

 

[Jersay]

Mandate

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), a department of the United Nations Secretariat, is mandated to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the United Nations and in international human rights laws and treaties. The mandate includes preventing human rights violations, securing respect for all human rights, promoting international cooperation to protect human rights, coordinating related activities throughout the United Nations, and strengthening and streamlining the United Nations system in the field of human rights. In addition to its mandated responsibilities, the Office leads efforts to integrate a human rights approach within all work carried out by United Nations agencies.

OHCHR's priorities are set out in its Strategic Management Plan 2006-2007 and follow the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights, and the Charter of the United Nations.

Field Presences
OHCHR works with and through other parts of the United Nations to carry out human rights activities at country level. Activities in the field are implemented in five different ways: through stand-alone OHCHR offices, which are established on the basis of memoranda of understanding signed with the governments concerned, or in keeping with decisions or resolutions made by the Commission on Human Rights ; through technical cooperation projects, which are undertaken, usually within United Nations Country Teams, in cooperation with and at the request of Member States; through OHCHR regional offices, which are mostly based within United Nations Economic and Social Commissions; through human rights advisers posted within United Nations Country Teams who are appointed at the request of the United Nations Resident Coordinators; and through human rights components of United Nations peace missions established by the United Nations Security Council or the General Assembly.

OHCHR field presences are usually limited in time and scope. A mission ends when certain concrete results are achieved, such as the creation of national human rights institutions and/or when OHCHR's partners or the United Nations Country Team can conduct human rights work on their own. Once these objectives are met, responsibility for promoting and protecting human rights can be transferred from OHCHR to its partners. Exit strategies and hand-over arrangements are coordinated with all partners.



Highlights
Uganda
OHCHR is currently setting up a human rights presence in Uganda to deal with protection issues in relation to the conflict afflicting the northern and eastern parts of the country. The country office, which is expected to be operational by June 2005, will undertake human rights monitoring, training, capacity-building of local actors, and work on a protection strategy in cooperation with the National Human Rights Commission as well as the United Nations Country Team.

Togo

In March 2005, the UNCT requested assistance related to the presidential election which will take place on 24 April 2005. OHCHR deployed a Human Rights Adviser to assist the UNCT on human rights and protection issues for three months to cover the period before and after the elections. The Adviser will help to devise a protection strategy for the UN system as a whole after consultation with all UN partners, other national stakeholders as well as civil society organizations such as NGOs and the Togolese National Human Rights Commission. In addition he will assist in the elaboration of medium and long term solutions/strategies for the promotion of human rights and rules of law and democracy.

Nepal

Following the signing of an agreement by the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Minister for Foreign Affairs on behalf of His Majesty’s Government of Nepal, in April 2005, the High Commissioner established an office to monitor the situation of human rights and observance of international humanitarian law with a view to preventative or remedial action by national authorities.

Guatemala

The Agreement signed in New York on 10 January 2005 by OHCHR and the Government of Guatemala to establish an OHCHR Office in the country with a combined monitoring and technical cooperation mandate, was approved by the External Affairs Commission of Guatemala's Congress on 8 April. This paves the way for the Agreement's prompt ratification by Congress. OHCHR is consequently preparing to open the Office as soon as the Agreement is ratified.

http://www.ohchr.org/english/countries/field/index.htm

So the politics at the New York level rarely discusses what is really done by U.N Human Rights aid workers.

 

[Jersay]

That's a very interesting post Finder, I see you're unable to explain what I mentioned, so of course you change the subject. And the subject always has to include the US. The problem with you leftists is that you do not understand the UN is comprised of 191 nations, one nation does not have the power to sway everybody, as it was evidenced by the Iraq war.

This conversation is about the inept UN. Sure the UN has done good, I never denied this. But when someone points out any wrongdoing, he's automatically thrown into the hate UN camp. I do not see why you defend the undefendable, I really don't.

I have yet to hear from you two a solid explanation as to why the UN permits states that have defied the Declaration of Human Rights to chair in key positions such as human rights, womens rights etc....

I'm waiting.

Because at the New York level it doesn't reflect what happens in the field.