US PUTTING PRESSURE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: Senator: End U.N. Rights Group Funding

A congressional delegate to the United Nations is pushing for the United States to cut off funding for the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying the watchdog group's focus on Israel and failure to investigate other countries made it a "disaster."

Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said Wednesday the council "has essentially one issue on its agenda - Israel. You've got countries like North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe where you have state-sponsored brutality, and what we have is deafening silence."

A Senate Foreign Relations Committee panel will take up the Human Rights Council's performance at a hearing Thursday. The committee last month approved legislation Coleman proposed to end U.S. funding of the council. The House last month approved similar legislation by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.

Barbara Boxer also seems to be behind this.
Is it possible--can the UN unite Republicans and Democrats?

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