Nov 18 2008
This is Not Hypocrisy!
Foreign Aid Money Spent on $23 Million Art Ceiling at U.N. Human Rights Council
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
U.N. Human Rights Council, often accused of coddling some of the world’s most repressive governments, threw itself a party in Geneva, where they unveiled a $23M mural paid for in part with money for the poor.
In a ceremony attended by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo told the press that his 16,000-square-foot ceiling artwork reminded him of “an image of the world dripping toward the sky” — but it reminded critics of money slipping out of relief coffers.
“In Spain there’s a controversy because they took money out of the foreign aid budget — took money from starving children in Africa — and spent it on colorful stalactites,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch.
This isn’t hypocrisy—this is just flat out WRONG! Criminal! Isn’t it possible for people to help other people without helping themselves?
Do nonprofit organizations intending to help others have to pay out huge salaries which takes money away from special programs?
Do public school bureaucratic administrations need to be, because they take money away from the schools the money is intended to help in the first place?
Do drug companies need to give big perks to their sales people or doctors, perks that cost so much money which increase the cost of the drugs meant to help people?
Do the people who preach about man made global warming have to fly all around the globe (polluting) telling people not to pollute
What others have to say:
Perspectives – perspectives.com/forums
The artwork will soar above the Human Rights Council’s chambers at U.N.’s European headquarters in Geneva, which may soon undergo a $1 billion renovation-but only after a $1.9 billion facelift of the U.N.’s New York offices is completed. Meanwhile, international humanitarian groups pleaded with the human rights panel to take time out from their party to address the worsening human rights “catastrophe” in the Congo, where the government is fighting a deadly battle with several rebel groups.”Mass displacement, killings and sexual violence-involving hundreds of thousands of victims, if not more-require an urgent response,” according to a statement issued jointly Tuesday by Freedom House and U.N. Watch.
