UN: Over Half the Countries Receiving Major Aid From Canada Voted With Iran to Throw out Canadian-led Censure of the Mullahs Human Rights Abuses....

And the majority of those taking Canada's generous aid and siding with Iran are...wait for it....Islamic....

UNITED NATIONS — More than half the countries receiving long-term overseas aid from Canada are among the bloc rebuffing a major, Canadian-led human rights campaign at the United Nations, analysis shows.

Thirteen “development partners” of the Canadian International Development Agency — Ottawa’s aid arm — opposed Canada’s position in a key opening vote of this year’s bid to highlight Iran’s human rights abuses.

Afghanistan — Canada’s biggest all-time aid recipient and treated along with Haiti as a special case outside the “development partner” program — also sided with Iran.

While backing Canada at the UN is not among Ottawa’s criteria for picking aid recipients, CIDA says one of its goals in dispensing aid is to help “developing countries . . . promote democracy and human rights.”

In descending order of CIDA funding last year, the 13 agency “partners” that voted with Iran to throw out the Canadian-led censure were Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mali, Senegal, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Pakistan, Zambia, Malawi, Bolivia, Cambodia and Nicaragua.

Among non-partner recipients of Canadian aid that voted with Iran was South Africa, which CIDA’s planning report for this year and next says Canada will help to combat HIV/AIDS and build public institutions.

“For too long, supposedly friendly countries in the Third World — many of whom rely on the generosity of Canada and other Western democracies — have used their UN votes to undermine vital international human rights initiatives, without our diplomats ever holding them to account,”said Hillel Neuer, Montreal-born head of UN Watch, a human-rights monitoring group in Geneva. “Effective Canadian multilateral diplomacy is impossible if Ottawa won’t push the right buttons in its bilateral relationships.”

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Comments

[Battlecat]

How about a vote to throw all the Muslim countries (except Turkey) out of the UN?

[seeteufel]

Battlecat, Turkey should be the first, but any vote would be rejected. We should face up to the fact that the UN was a good idea that failed, let all decent democracies quit now. The muzzies want to run it, let them pay for it as well. The UN can only be compared to a primary school where the pupils dictate all curriculum and policy. As for those poor developing countries that stand shoulder to shoulder with their muslim brothers, let them get their aid from them as well, I think we have had enough. One of the main pillars of Islam is charity towards other muslims. Of the $570 millions pledged to the Palestinians in 2006,
95% came from the non-Islamic world. Saudi Arabia gave $1.2 million.