Bernard-Henri Lévy on the failure of the UN anti-racism conference

Bernard-Henri Lévy calls in the liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera for the dissolution of the UN Human Rights Council in reparation for the debacle at the UN anti-racism conference in Geneva: "An anti-racism conference that was prepared by Libya, opened by Tehran and which concluded with a document that performed the commendable service of directly attacking women, Jews, sexual and religious minorities, free thinkers and indigenous peoples is a total failure. … I see only one way to avoid a repetition of this scandal and repair the damage that has been done. … The Human Rights Council must be dissolved and a new council created and endowed with a system of government that makes control by murdering states, as we have today, impossible. A simple regulation must be established that enables rogue states, dictatorial states and states that commit genocide to be excluded from the council until they change their regime, just as citizens who are guilty of a serious crime are temporarily deprived of their civil rights."

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