Amnesty:courage of Arab Spring protesters matched by a failure of world leadership.
"The courage shown by protesters in the past 12 months has been matched by a failure of leadership that makes the UN Security Council seem tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for purpose."
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Amnesty International said as it launched its 50th Global Human Rights report with a call for a strong global Arms Trade Treaty later this year.
Support and praise for the Arab Spring protests by global and regional powers in early 2011 failed to materialise into action and it seemed as Egyptians elect a new president the opportunity for change which the protests created is being squandered.
“In the last year it has all too often become clear that opportunistic alliances and financial interests have trumped human rights as global powers jockey for influence in the Middle East and North Africa,” it said
The report says that a failure to intervene in countries like Syria left the UN Security Council looking redundant as a guardian of global peace.
The emerging powerhouses of India, Brazil and South Africa have too often been complicit through their silence.
The report does not mention it, but the failure to act over the deteriorating situation in Mali which is endangering the whole of the Sahel and ultimately North Africa because of salafist and terrorist elements engaged in drugs and weapons smuggling and kidnapping. The failure to control and stabalise the situation in Bamako contrasts with the growing control by rebels and terrorist organisations in the North of Mali.
The failure of negotiations on the Western Sahara and Morocco's decision to withdraw confidence in the UN Secretary General's special representative is another sign of the growing UN ineffectiveness.
Part of this may be caused by a shortage of funds for the UN which is militarily committed along with the AU in Sudan.
The United States has noticeably retired from direct action itself, which will be welcomed by many but it has left a void and the UN Security Council is proving itself increasingly ineffective as a body which is supposed to ensure world order and justice.
The same collective failure to act was seen with the League of Nations prior to the Second World War and the global economic depression was the main cause. Amnesty International points to The UN meeting to agree an Arms Trade Treaty in July as a test of whether countries like Russia and China which have blocked initiatives to end the Syrian conflict will work to ensure world peace.
Support and praise for the Arab Spring protests by global and regional powers in early 2011 failed to materialise into action and it seemed as Egyptians elect a new president the opportunity for change which the protests created is being squandered.
“In the last year it has all too often become clear that opportunistic alliances and financial interests have trumped human rights as global powers jockey for influence in the Middle East and North Africa,” it said
The report says that a failure to intervene in countries like Syria left the UN Security Council looking redundant as a guardian of global peace.
The emerging powerhouses of India, Brazil and South Africa have too often been complicit through their silence.
The report does not mention it, but the failure to act over the deteriorating situation in Mali which is endangering the whole of the Sahel and ultimately North Africa because of salafist and terrorist elements engaged in drugs and weapons smuggling and kidnapping. The failure to control and stabalise the situation in Bamako contrasts with the growing control by rebels and terrorist organisations in the North of Mali.
The failure of negotiations on the Western Sahara and Morocco's decision to withdraw confidence in the UN Secretary General's special representative is another sign of the growing UN ineffectiveness.
Part of this may be caused by a shortage of funds for the UN which is militarily committed along with the AU in Sudan.
The United States has noticeably retired from direct action itself, which will be welcomed by many but it has left a void and the UN Security Council is proving itself increasingly ineffective as a body which is supposed to ensure world order and justice.
The same collective failure to act was seen with the League of Nations prior to the Second World War and the global economic depression was the main cause. Amnesty International points to The UN meeting to agree an Arms Trade Treaty in July as a test of whether countries like Russia and China which have blocked initiatives to end the Syrian conflict will work to ensure world peace.
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