UN Arab Human Development Puzzle: Somebody Somewhere in Arabia Violates Human Rights and Dignity
“United Nations accuses several Arab states of violating human rights, but declines to name those countries that practice certain serious violations….A UN report on Arab human development Tuesday reported on threats to freedoms and the practice of torture and unlawful detention in several Arab states…..It cites anti-constitutional procedures, violence against women, human trafficking, and lengthy emergency and martial laws…..among many others…Report more specific on economic issues but not on others that relate to human rights…”
Only several states violate various human rights? And why is the UN so emasculated that it can’t publish the names of these regimes? How effective is a report that does not name the countries in question? Part of it might as well be a work of fiction.
I must admit, parts of the report are quite good in identifying certain problems, but they are incomplete because they do not mention names of countries in other than economic contexts.
A reader from Mars would not guess, for example, which countries bans political parties. He might think you have as much a chance in Saudi Arabia as you have in Lebanon of forming a political party, or speaking your opinion of the head of state.
I was also interested in things like rating various interrogation methods and the many state guests in the various dungeons and political prisons.
I was interested in some rating system for the various state thugs, the plainclothes men who can better enforce the law, or break it, depending on your point of view.
I was hoping for some rating system on which oligarchy is preferable for an Arab dissident to dissent against. Which state security it is more comfortable for an Arab citizen to deal with. Real-life practical things like that: not only tables of data on economic and poverty indicators (the tables are useful).
“Assistant Secretary general of the Arab League condemns the report for neglecting the impact of foreign interventions on the security of citizens in Arab countries such as Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan…..”
As for the Arab League, that club of mostly undemocratic and oppressive despots: its role has always been as an enabler and witness for the defense. Besides, the secretary general probably did not read the report: there is some reference to these issues of foreign interference, unless he is talking about the Arab Jihadists who infiltrate into countries like Iraq and commit terror….
The report also reminded me that Comoros and Djibouti (as well as Somalia) are Arab states.
More on this later...
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