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04/04/2006
CWA Supports Frist’s Resolution to Oppose U.N. Human Rights Council WASHINGTON, -- Concerned Women for America (CWA) supports a resolution introduced by Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tennessee) which opposes U.S. participation in the U.N.’s Human Rights Council. This new Council, recently created to replace the discredited U.N. Commission on Human Rights, does not remedy the systemic flaws of the old Commission, and is arguably worse. "The U.N.’s Human Rights Council sets up the illusion of credibility simply because it is new, yet it carries the same shortcomings – and more – of the old Commission," said Wendy Wright, CWA’s President. "The Council institutes new flaws while several key problems remain, such as allowing egregious human rights abusers to be members. The Council is not limited to addressing violations of universally recognized human rights and thus allows members to redirect the Council’s focus away from true abuses to spurious accusations against perceived enemies and the old tactic of condemning Israel. The greatest defender of human rights, the United States (which is also the largest donor), would have to rotate off every third year. "The current formation of the Human Rights Council sets it up to fail to an even more spectacular degree than the old Commission on Human Rights. "We applaud Sen. Frist for demanding the U.S. act with integrity and for proposing the option of creating a separate human rights body from the Council. The U.S. voted against the Council for valid reasons, and American tax dollars should not be wasted on a fraud. We should not accept anything less than a human rights body that will rectify every flaw of the former U.N. Commission on Human Rights. The United States must set the example to the United Nations of a country that esteems the value of human rights." Concerned Women for America (CWA) is the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization.
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