Its always those two for any attempt to improve human rights rules
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This is why no country should have veto power. The USA and Israel have held back the UN from fulfilling its promise for...ever, really. China, Russia, and other have pitched in to fuck up good things from time to time but it's usually the big two war god worshipping nations.
When a religion is based on worshipping a god of war, don't be surprised when they're violent; physically, mentally, verbally, politically...
Edit: as pointed out in a reply: Israel has no veto power.
Israel has no veto power, thank god
From my research.
This wasn't a UN vote. It was a committee vote on whether to bring it to the assembly or not. Obviously if the US is against it then there's no reason to have a vote.
Also it wasn't really making food a right for your citizens, it was about using starvation as a war tactic.
Edit: as pointed out in a reply: Israel has no veto power.
Not officially at least.
There’s a country that was planted somewhere it didn’t belong, murdered the people already living there, and claimed the land as its own… and then there’s its ally, Israel
is torture bad

was the african slave trade bad

is nazism bad

are Palestinians human beings

is nazism bad
In the context of the war in Ukraine – and with Russia justifying its invasion, which began on 24 February, by the desire to "denazify" the country – many states that had previously abstained decided to vote against the resolution this year.
This one had me confused, because in some states Nazi symbols sends you to jail in Australia, yet they voted against it.
"just vote no, you never know what rights-less people we will need to torture down the line with slavery and naziism!"
AKA Israel and Israel-lite
The plot twist here is that Israel is actually US-lite. Israel is commiting its genocide in an effort to steal native land, the US completed its genocidal land acquisition long ago.
And boy did it pay out.
I argue the opposite in another comment.
The USA is being colonized by Israel. Israel effectively owns the US gov and most US media, while also attempting to takeover the US military.
For the US to be colonized by Israel, the Israelis would need to be moving here and displacing the population.
AmerIsrael®
That's not really harsh. I knew thus shit since the day I was 5 and watched Israel kill children on TV in 2002/2003
That's what I would have expected.
US: "human rights are a commodity, and you get them if you have the money."
Israel: "The natives aren't humans. And we humans have food, so no declaration needed."
One is the Ferengi nation. The other is a classic Apartheid state.
Shocker! The country that can't even agree to give children free lunches in schools voted that food isn't a human right? I'm more and more shameful of my country by the second.
If we just give the children food, what incentive will they have to work in the mines?
Look, you can't make profitable things a "right", that just leads to lower profits becsuse pesky regulations around what people "have a right to".
/s
It's always those two. But hey, don't you ever dare saying so because you'll always find someone who goes either "But not all americans!!!!" Or "OMG! Antisemitism!!!!!".
Don't really care about the downvotes but actually yes BY DEFINITION not all Americans.
Just be honest about being a hateful pos instead of pretending it's somehow just
Yes, because all 350 million of us some of whom were brought here against their will and some of whom were subjugated upon the arrival of the others have all agreed to this being OK… Fuck off with your fucking bullshit and place the blame where it actually belongs. I will always say not all Americans because I’m sick and fucking tired of being lumped in with the white people who aren’t from here.
Glad to not see the usual excuses here when this is mentioned saying nonsense about "trying to force us to pay".
Bro, when Eritrea and fucking Afghanistan declare food a human right, but not fucking America?????
Yeah, America is fucked.
should have declared it anyway
USA has a veto 😁
This was a vote in the General Assembly, where no country has a veto. It's one of the only institutions in the world where one can gauge global sentiments instead of what "the international community" has decided. The veto is in the security council, where the powerful countries that make up "the international community" rule over everyone else.
Here's a harsh reality people need to understand.
Israel is NOT the US's rabid dog.
Israel owns US politicians.
Israel is taking over US media
Israel is working to forcibly integrate the US's military into its own
Israel has dragged the US into multiple illegal wars of aggression against it's regional opponents
Israel is training ICE, the US gestapo
Israel is selling spyware to the US to spy on Americans.
Israel isn't the US's rabid dog.
Israel is COLONIZING the USA
I know that this image is used mainly by racists and transphobes, but...

...come on man.
I had no idea there were only 4 countries left in the UN. When did that happen?
I think we can safely replace all UN members without veto power with muppets and it would not change the results of any vote or decision made by UN. UN would have only 5 members then (only the ones who can veto a decision) and it would require unanimous voting.
There are probably some countries that vote for the proposition to look good, knowing the USA will veto.
Oh well that's alright then, innit?
No, it saddens me too, what made you believe otherwise?
There's no veto in the General Assembly.
I mean, the joke of this is in how the UN tried to declare this while so many of it's members were actively using starvation as a weapon against dissidents at home and abroad.
The Saudis have been trying to starve Yemen into submission for decades, ffs. Same with Ethiopia, using starvation against the Tigrea region. Honduras, the Philippines, Pakistan, Haiti, Egypt, Russia.
The resolution was actually adopted https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3951462
That's fine. We're still using starvation as a weapon, globally.
Is it really a shock?
If food or even water was a human right then a lot of capitalisms main ideologies would be wrong. You see why capitalism should be dead 100 years ago.
Because the UN has exactly one purpose: Serve as a forum for nations to communicate and prevent world war.
That's it.
You can read the US' reasoning for it here: https://geneva.usmission.gov/2017/03/24/u-s-explanation-of-vote-on-the-right-to-food/
The US also voted no because the belief that States are responsible for implementing human rights provisions themselves, not requiring other countries to pick up the tab. The US already provides more than half of global food aid. This resolution would have amounted to "all of your food belongs to everyone" which is bullshit.
Were do you get your numbers from? https://alnap.hacdn.io/media/documents/GHA_report_v5_1606_v2.pdf
Europe is the greatest donor. Even before Trump
Have you even read that? The US is still the top donor, contributing more than all of Europe combined. And that’s with the massive decrease in spending by the Trump admin.
The US went from about half of all global humanitarian spending (since that is not just food aid, which I was talking about but hey, move those goalposts!) to 23%.
I feel like I'm going crazy that you're responding to someone saying Europe is the greatest donor, and their proof is a publication showing the US donating more than twice Europe.
Keep fighting the good fight, I guess. America Bad is just so hot right now.
Couldn't they make food a human right in the US if they were that concerned?
It basically is already. There are so many food security programs in the US.
There's SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) which gives cash directly to low-income people to buy food. It's basically food stamps.
There's WIC which provides free essential foods for low-income women and their children.
There's TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program), which provides free food boxes and prepared meals to low-income households and supplies food banks.
There's CSFP (Commodity Supplemental Food Program) which provides monthly free food boxes to low-income seniors 60+ through food banks.
There's CACFP (Child and Adult Care Food Program) which provides reimbursements for meals and snacks to eligible children and adults who are enrolled for care at participating childcare centers, day care homes, and adult day care centers.
There's NSLP (National School Lunch Program) which funds free and reduced-price lunches for low-income students.
There's SBP (School Breakfast Program) which funds school breakfasts for free or reduced-price for low-income students and subsidizes the cost for all students to keep prices lower.
There's SFSP (Summer Food Service Program) which provides funding for sites to feed children and teens on school breaks that can't get food at school. For free, and open to anyone 18 and younger, or older than 18 with disabilities. Here's a map of all sites in the US that participate. https://kidsfoodfinder.org/
Between all of these programs, you have to try to starve in the US. Starvation and malnutrition in the US is largely isolated to the elderly with severe cognitive disabilities like Alzheimer's and dementia, and those with severe eating disorders. Malnutrition from lack of food is almost non-existent in the US because, despite Republicans' best efforts, we actually do have a robust safety net when it comes to food.
And this is on top of also providing more than half of global food aid.

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