Most and perhaps all human organizations eventually fail, and the UN is a perfect example of how such failure happens.
When they are formed, organizations have well defined goals, and actively pursue them. Those that take part in them tend to be those that share those goals and wish to further them.
As time goes by, these goals recede into the past, and the behavior of a typical organization becomes dominated by the goals and aspirations of its participants. Typically these participants include its managers, its employees, and its owners, or in the case of the United Nations, of its member nations.
Managers and employees of government agencies tend to value their jobs, and their opportunities for “tips” i.e. rewards for corrupt behavior, over all else, including any original goal. Member nations of the UN value their own survival and their own interests over the lofty purposes that were advertised at its creation.
With a human rights panel, most nations have little interest in spending resources on participation. Western nations have little interest in proclaiming their righteousness in this way. The only governments who have such interest are those who see a danger in it, from themselves being named as violators of human rights. These nations have a keen interest in being part of international human rights organizations, and they have a further interest in occupying the time of such organizations with distractions from their own horrible records, such as their campaigns against Israel and the United States.
Thus UN human rights organizations have become defacto committees of Human Rights Violating Nations, and their behavior has become a mockery of language and a disgrace to the United Nations. But this is exactly what should have been expected.
The United Nations has failed miserably in almost everything it has attempted in recent years. How long will it be before it goes the way of the League of Nations?
