- • Iran was elected to the UN Commission on Population & Development. Was its qualification culling populations through mass executions?
• Iran, where a rape victim must apologize to avoid hanging, was re-elected to the UN's top women's rights body, the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
• Russia was elected to the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice - giving a whole new meaning to "crime."
• China was elected to the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development. Perhaps the UN views development as the art of stealing science and technology.
• Cuba, Iran, Belarus were elected to the UN Committee for Programme Coordination. Why UN programming at some of the lowest levels of human endeavor.
• China and Russia were elected to serve on the UN Working Group on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting. US taxpayer dollars accountable to their standards of accounting.
• Belarus, a country where violence against children is hugely problematic, was elected to the Executive Board of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• Iran, Sudan and Russia were elected to the UN Committee on Non-governmental organizations. This is the committee that accredits NGOs, the NGOs that are permitted to speak and participate actively in UN events. From that perch, they will attempt - and frequently succeed - in keeping NGOs from democratic states out, and allowing anti-democratic, anti-American and anti-Israel NGOs in.
• Elected to run the UN Development Programme (UNDP) were Russia & Libya. One shudders to think what they will be developing.
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo was elected to the Governing Council of the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) - a country infamous for its appalling treatment and creation of refugees.