South Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan, Indonesia, Maldives, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Ethiopia, Burundi, Malawi, Ghana, Mali, and many others become democracies recently.
Last year these were Kyrgyzstan and Guinea.
Friday, 25 March 2011
About Libya
Danger is that Libya is on the short list worst regimes in the world in terms of human rights violation. It has also islamist opposition. Think about Iraq in the times of Saddam Hussein lite (smaller country and overall better performance), but without any history of democracy whatsoever.
This may result in insurgency and humanitarian crisis. Currently Libya has worst rule of law, personal safety, economic opportunity, corruption, gender equality and in the same time highest income in North Africa.
It has good infrastructure and public management, but this isn't anything what few bombs can't take back.
This was kind of unexpected in Egypt. That government with very little money and very good results have fallen.
About Bahrain
I think first thing you can do is educate yourself about Bahrain.
Here is nice overview.
Opinion article - The Rise of Shia Petrolistan
France and UK stopped export of arms to Bahrain. You can advocate same ban in your country, if it does sell such equipment. Especially, if it is USA which sell lot of weapons to Bahrain, even provide money to buy them. US has naval base there, BTW.
Blocking financial institutions in Cote d'Ivoire
Most of people in Cote d'Ivoire don't relay very much on international financial institutions, army does.
As soon as Gbagbo will loose army support, he is out of office.
Central Bank,
commercial banks,
stock exchange,
cocoa exporters,
ports,
oil sector
This is quite historical event, because first time UN, EU, USA and AU have same opinion on something. Although there were dissenting opinions, notably from Russia and Uganda.
About Equatorial Guinea
It is country with almost $20k of income per person. Richest country on the continent beside Seychelles.
It is abnormality. In terms of accountability it is below Zimbabwe. Most corrupt country in Africa, besides Somalia. It has worse track record of human rights abuses than Libya, Sudan, Zimbabwe (and almost every country on earth). It has one of the worst gender disparities on the continent. It has one of the worst opportunities for private sector. It has awful environmental abuses. It has one of worst healthcare in Africa.
This is perverse country.It is very rich, but only 40% of population has access to safe drinking water. There is no another such place.
If you care about facts tell me how do you feel about that:
1) Equatorial Guinea doesn't receive economic aid,
2) Do you understand that cheap, healthcare intervention can make remarkable difference? We are talking about cutting down 2/3 of child deaths in 4 years.
Promoting economic growth in Equatorial Guinea may be misguided, but you want to left children to death, because their government is irresponsible. In the name of what?
About U.N. Human Rights Council
This shape and form of Human Rights Council was created by voting and can be changed by voting.
It is intergovernmental elected comity dominated by Muslim countries.
Secretary General and High Commissioner for Human Right, European Union, United States and number of human rights NGOs criticized it.
Despite their name panel is concern mainly about Israel and Islam.
This is not a serious body. Real work is done in Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, big independent agency.
BTW, There is also Third Committee of General Assembly. I say only that this is open forum.
P.S. In my opinion it is much better to give people of the whole world forum to express their opinion than not to. Otherwise we will be hearing how human rights abuses in Arab are "white man fault" or even something more ridiculous.
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