THE United Nations was founded to promote peace,prosperity and human rights.It is doing somewhat better on the first two counts than its critics sometimes make out.The last,however,has been such a failure that it is threatening to bring the whole edifice down.Once revered as the creator of all the great universal human-rights rules and instruments,the 53-member Commission on Human Rights has been thoroughly discredited.If it cannot be fixed it needs to be scrapped.In its present form it serves only to make a mockery of the cause.
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