Issue Position: United Nations

Issue Position

I believe a conversation is long overdue in regards to the United Nations and the role it plays on the global stage. If the United Nations is to lead the world in a positive direction, the institution must champion freedom, human rights and dignity in a framework that is honest and legitimate. But it's fair to ask whether the U.N. is accomplishing its goals in regards to human rights, women's rights, the welfare of children and minorities:

The United States is the U.N.'s biggest benefactor contributing over $7.7 billion each year. Of United Nations General Assembly votes where the votes are recorded, coincidence with the US position has averaged only 32.4% since the State Department's first report in 1984. Every U.N. member state, regardless of whether it is a democracy, theocracy, dictatorship, or terrorist-supporting regime, has a vote in the General Assembly. Free states and rogue states have an equal voice. I do not believe this should continue.

Here are some other facts that shape my position on the U.N.

United Nations subsidiary organizations have been hijacked from potentially beneficial work by some of the very states they should be examining.
The U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) recently included such human rights violators as Pakistan, Venezuela and Kazakhstan with Algeria, Chad, China, Cuba, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam and possibly Iran and Syria seeking to join in November.
The U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) recently included Pakistan, Iran and China, a nation whose one-child policy results in the abortion of millions of female fetuses and the infanticide or abandonment of millions of baby girls. Many other states with atrocious records on women's rights also sit on the CSW. Rather than condemning states that abuse women's rights, at its recent session in New York, the CSW passed only one country-specific resolution, accusing America's ally Israel of holding back the advancement of Palestinian women.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) was governed by an Executive Board which included China, Cuba, Haiti, Russia Pakistan and Iran. As noted above, China's policies lead to the abuse of children's rights, Russia is notorious for orphanages that damage children physically and psychologically, and Iran is the world leader in the execution of minors.

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