Shows two voted against, but I only see one country in red, what is the second one?
If you zoom in you can barely see Israel being red… altho the compression on this is so bad, it’s hard to tell whether that are just compression artifacts or not
The last emoji in the title doesn’t show up on my end
Edit: fixed typos
Here’s the US lying through its teeth about why it voted no:
https://geneva.usmission.gov/2017/03/24/u-s-explanation-of-vote-on-the-right-to-food/
Wasn’t it basically trying to push IP rights and extra judicial arbiters on the other nations?
Smh so disappointing they’re like “well we have agricultural safety concerns and we aren’t sure that the policy would work as intended…so let them starve instead nothing we can do so sad”
Mask slipping moment there. I think their real motivation is more like this:
“We would lose global influence if food were a human right, as we heavily subsidise our food industry so we can export it for cheap, destroying local food production in other countries and forcing them to be reliant on our “humanitarian” aid.”
Oh no doubt, but they can’t go out and say that, I just mean their “official” statement is extremely disappointing because they’d only release a statement on a UN vote like that if they know it’s fucked up. Obviously they give the most professional sounding excuse but that “professional” excuse of theirs is especially disrespectful given the fact that we all know they’re lying on top of being just legitimately evil
wait Taiwan is a UN member state?
Taiwan has a limited status in some international organizations under the name “Chinese Taipei” (this name greatly angers Taiwanese ultranationalists so I use it whenever possible), but the UN recognizes it as part of China.
There’s a video of the UN voting on the PRC’s membership to the exclusion of Taiwan, the entire room laughs when America casts its vote and there’s an interview somewhere with a RoC diplomat whining about their “true democracy and freedom” despite the RoC being a one-party white terror regime.
There’s a video of the UN voting on the PRC’s membership to the exclusion of Taiwan, the entire room laughs when America casts its vote
unmultimedia.org; “1976th Plenary Meeting of General Assembly: 26th Session - Part 2” (skip to ~6:50)
Each gov’t has a policy of not recognizing any state that recognizes the other gov’t.
