To the rest of the world, the treatment of the Black community by the police (who killed at least 136 unarmed black people in 2012 alone) and the criminal justice system easily seems as bad as the Russia treatment of the LGBTQ* community. Which is to say, both are terrible, and trying to deflect attention away from one by using the other is something that both sides do (e.g. Russia has used the actions of the NYPD to justify their police repression).

"To the rest of the world, the treatment of the Black community by the police (who killed at least 136 unarmed black people in 2012 alone) and the criminal justice system easily seems as bad as the Russia treatment of the LGBTQ* community."

The rest of the world minus myself, and I'm not from the US or even US-related.

The UN? They just need to be given the finger and told to piss-off and make an attempt to do something meaningful for a change.

However, given the commie-tendencies of Hussein OBla-Bla and his henchies, it would not surprise me if the USA does bend to this pissy little whim, as the current president seems to think so little of the USA or its justice system.

As another card carrying member of the rest of the world I can assure you that I have never considered this anything but a (rather tedious) internal US matter. On the big list of global events worthy of attention it simply doesn't feature.

The UN ....... UNreal, UNbelievable, UNcomplete waste of time and space

Typical, typical, typical UN. They endlessly discuss the situation in Israel, but the thousands and thousands of dying Syrians is not sufficiently interesting to deal with boldly.

The LGBT community is losing serious ground in certain parts of the world, but they want to discuss this obscure US individual court case.

If, as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, I wonder what the BS intentions of the UN will bring us.

I am curious: if Israel would fight a war with the Palestinians and the death count would be a few % of Assad's, I think some countries would throw such a fit of rage in the UN HQ in New York, that you should be careful of small earthquakes in Manhattan if something like this ever happens. Western countries let themselves be manipulated to support these organizations, I say: we can deal with the problems in the world without the UN's kind help.

There's absolutely no chance that this goes anywhere. For a lot of reasons.

Most tellingly, let's look at who's saying this. It's coming from the UN Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent. Not the General Assembly, not even the grossly misnamed Human Rights Council. Just some make-work sinecure for politically connected hacks.

This just goes to show you the power of the American media to misinform on a global scale.

Invictus,
You're not suggesting the UN is a mindless, uncontrolled institution, whose left arm does not know what its right arm does? That lacks, at this particular level within its administration, the sensitivity to how this type of "reprimand" will play out in Global media, given the current state of world authorities?
Certainly you wouldn't?

*to know how
*world affairs

As controversial as it may be to point out that the UN is a flawed institution, that is what I'm saying, yes. Let the scales fall from our eyes!

I feel that the UN - and not just a sub-sub-subcommittee on nonsense affairs - should be reprimanded by the world community in the most aggressive available diplomacy, to demonstrate that its well-payed, comfortably living diplomats in such exotic resorts as New York City and Geneve should have a sensitivity of how such a statement plays out. They should know that in a time when weapons are being used that many had hoped had be silently put on the ashheep of history, in a time when people with a different sexual orientation are being harassed in more and more countries, attacking the one country that - for all the flaws of its own - has the power and will to take a position on these issues that is not entirely void of decency, may not be the best course of action.

And I believe that has little to do with the American media, flawed as they themselves might be.

No, it's all the media's fault. Why does this joke committee know who Trayvon Martin was? Because of the media inflaming racial animosity in what really was a straight-forward case that ought no to have even gone to trial in order to get ratings.

Sarcasm?

Not at all. If it weren't for the media pressure there would have been summary judgement acquitting Zimmerman right after the prosecution made its bungled case. He probably would never have even been charged, since there was so little evidence against him.

But the media drummed things up in this sad but unremarkable self-defense case in order to get their ratings back up after the post-election slouch. All the time arguing about stand-your-ground (which wasn't even a factor in the case) on CNN would have been much better spent on something else. Like the Syrian Civil War, for example.

UN: "Uh, hey, US Government, have you heard about that Trayvon Martin thing? You guys should maybe have somebody look into that."
US: "Oh, gee, thanks, United Nations. We hadn't thought of that. It's not like we've already got Justice, the FBI, and the Attorney General's office working on it. Glad to see you're on top of world affairs. We'll get right on top of that. Mumble mumble son-of-a-mumble mumble wouldn't know his mumble from his mumble..."

The United States has a race problem. The United States should deal with that race problem, not the United Nations.

Libya has a dictator problem, Syria has a civil war problem, the Congo has a terrorist army problem. The United Nations should deal with those problems, not the United States.

For some reason it's now the other way around.

Why, pray, is there so much hostility towards the United Nations?