Has the UN lost the plot?

I have zero faith in the UN. As for hosting it in Iran, words fail me

The UN is also saturated with transactivists. This is what they posted on International Lesbian Day (October 8th):
"Remember, trans lesbians are lesbians too.
Let's uplift and honour EVERY expression of love and identity! Happy International #LesbianDay! "

with this image:

(They did get 100% angry responses. Like last year. They do it on purpose.)

I think quite a number of U.N. personnel have already died in Gaza. More grieving families.

No, the UN has not lost the plot: they never found it!

It has become an irrelevant talking shop with very few powers it might just as well become come another aid organization. Human rights mean nothing in Iran, China, Russia or a great many other nations who pay lip service to it.

Iran joined the United Nations in 1945 and their representative is one of 5 vice presidents elected from September this year.
Will widen my research so not chairing but sharing.

My brother lived and worked in Iran 1977-79 we visited in 78. It was fine then although some men gave us a hard time. I never felt really at ease though. My then husband and I were sunbathing on the balcony one day and had stones thrown at us! My brother escaped in 79 to Jordan when the Shah was overthrown.
It is a very volatile, unsafe country which rarely, if ever, listens or tells the truth. The UN, in my opinion, is a spent force which rarely, if ever, makes any difference to the situations it faces. Look at Bosnia!!!!

Iran? I've been rendered speechless!! Who organises this circus? Only advice to Israel is to ignore both the futile/stupid, and the wicked members of this rabble.

UN has been useless for years.Putting foxes in charge of henhouse so to speak.
Absolutely nothing to help West Papua, Tibet, Ukraine, Israel, nothing to save North Koreans and cruel dictatorships put in charge of human rights..Islamic fundamentalists that oppress women in charge.

No words, especially with the sad events in the area surrounding them at this point in time, and their involvement.

What can be done? It’s awful I agree, can we campaign, will anyone listen? Will we be dismissed as the equivalent of terfs or Islamophobic because we object

About as useful as the former League of Nations in the 1930s.

To be honest, I’ve been thinking that for some time. The money could be more usefully employed elsewhere.

Agree.. Total waste of time and money.
Useless to the extreme.

The United Nutjobs are really irrelevant these days. I really wonder where the ‘united’ comes in - maybe ‘unco-ordinated’ would be a better moniker.

TerriBull

The Iran that has Morality Police who dragged some poor 16 year old off a train for not wearing a headscarf, beat her around the head which left her in a coma before she subsequently died. WTF do they know about human rights

The UN was set up in different days, maybe it served some sort of purpose then. For ages it has been a useless talking shop, it has had trillions of pounds thrown at it and achieves what exactly?

I agree totally.

The UN was set up in different days, maybe it served some sort of purpose then. For ages it has been a useless talking shop, it has had trillions of pounds thrown at it and achieves what exactly?

I've thought for a long time that it is just a useless waste of money because it achieves none of its original aims.

Iran chairing the UN Human Rights Committee as from tomorrow is an affront to women everywhere.

Says it all about the UN really.

It’s frightening how easily we’re giving in to these people. To have Iran chair the UNHR committee is essentially validating the way they treat their citizens. God help those who disagree with them.

Like others here, we also have friends who lived a wonderful life in Iran in the 70’s. One of their children was born there and has a Persian name. Iran sounds like a different planet now.

For the past few years, Iran-Taliban relations have been very strong. When Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei publicly, although with carefully crafted words, welcomed the new reality. Iran was one of just a handful of countries that kept its embassy open when the Taliban took over in Kabul, demonstrating Iran’s great expectations.

The Taliban would happily take people back to mediaeval times. Stonings, beheadings, women wrapped up like mummies, no schooling (best keep intelligent citizens as ignorant as possible eh?) it’s barbaric. And the Taliban? Off their heads on cocaine. Morality police? Suppression of women by men. It’s control of the highest order because they have the power. And the Kalashnikov rifles as they patrol the streets ...

Life was good before the Islamic revolution. As terribull says, freedom to enjoy a rich history and culture. One of my friends now in his fifties lived there with his Persian dad and British mother. They left because of the revolution. He is sad he’s been unable to return to meet up with. extended family
Who’d have imagined replacing the progress and freedoms for an oppressive regime

Sorry that was addressed to Iam not I'm.

Yes this is true I'm, It was a cafe culture back then, they had it all. A wonderful history,culturally rich, a great cuisine skiing, beach life around The Caspian. I even think people were free to worship whatever their religious persuasion was. My neighbours were Zoroastrian the ancient religion of Persia, to practice their faith there now they would be deemed apostates.

The UN aren’t fit for purpose. They need to be shut down.

TerriBull, I have close friends who enjoyed life in Persia before the shah was disposed in the 70’s. They had freedoms which don’t exist for women now

Time for the pretence that is the UN to be sent packing, this is a. Insult to women and democracy everywhere. Disgraceful.