Key House Republicans are keeping up their assault on the United Nations this week by once again bringing up a three year old fake scandal involving alleged UN payments to the North Korean regime. Guest post by Peter Yeo, Executive Director of the Better World Campaign.
To add to what is apparently becoming a running series here on UN Dispatch, two new interesting takes on the role the Responsibility to Protect and Libya.
According to the UN Refugee Agency, some 100,000 people have fled from Libya to Tunisia in recent days. From UNHCR, some incredible footage of the chaos at the Libya-Tunisia border.
Later this afternoon, the General Assembly will hold a vote on whether or not to boot Libya from the UN Human Rights Council. Doing so will require a two thirds majority vote of the entire membership of the UN--that's 127 countries. UPDATE: Resolution passes
