Sunday, May 14, 2006

UN hypocrisy just saddening

Well, the UN is just hopeless sometimes when it comes to doing the right thing. Taiwanese journalists seeking to cover the World Health Assembly starting May 22 were denied accreditation by the UN office in Geneva.

But UN itself states in its declaration of universal rights:
Everyone has the right … to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Apparently, the UN violates its own declaration. Its truly unfortunate when the UN itself is the obstacle to allowing freedom of the press and information to occur. It's policy of non-discrimination is actually actively discriminating against Taiwan. When will the UN acquire some backbone and stand up to the irrational objections of the brutal Chinese dictatorship?