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...This declaration comes as the UN continues to offer no substantial relief to the people of Darfur, where more than 200,000 have already died in inter-ethnic violence. It took two years for the UN to even officially recognize the massive violence in Western Sudan, and, even then, it has not termed the massacre of innocents “genocide.” The Outcome Document devotes just one line to an expression of remembrance for the Holocaust, but it dedicates two entire paragraphs to an exhortation for “all international sporting bodies to promote?...
...states take legal action to combat “xenophobic attitudes towards and negative stereotyping of non-citizens.” Further passages in the document excoriate states that discriminate against immigrants, whether legal or not. This anti-nationalistic, pro-globalization sentiment is fraught with problems, particularly as the UN cannot possibly enforce or even evaluate whether states accept large amounts of immigrants and whether their immigration policies are liberal. There were further resolutions promoting democracy and multiculturalism and resolutions against assimilation and nationalism. The conference’s resolutions were generally naïve and impractical, even when they...
...conference was heated, insulting, and did not engender positive strides toward ending racism. Further, the resolutions adopted were, on the whole, both infeasible and unrealistic. Repressive regimes in Saudi Arabia and China (among other participants in the conference) have little incentive to actually implement the resolutions, and the UN has no way to actually enforce them. The lack of concrete standards and suggestions further undermines the purpose of the conference, and it can therefore be considered a failure...
...degrees. Your thighs are sticking together as you wait out your 90-minute un-air-conditioned lecture. Beads of sweat are oozing out of pores you didn't know existed...
...very concept of the UN is predicated on the notion that as many nations as possible will participate and support it. By choosing to be absent from the conference, the U.S. forfeited the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to an international effort to deal with a very serious issue that many countries must address. Instead, the conference was dominated by a man who is clearly the very opposite of tolerance and open-mindedness...