Wednesday, September 28, 2011

UN Walkouts

Canada walks out on Iran's UN speech in 2009.
Canada walks out on Iran's UN speech in 2010.
Canada walks out on Iran's UN speech in 2011.

I wonder what the rules are for UN Walking? We should have some guidelines, shouldn't we? From the last three walkouts I've determined that the existing rules are: "when Iran talks, we walk."

Not very UNy.

Kinda got me thinking how we (in Canada) could formalize this sorta thing so that we know when to walk out on a speaker. My criteria for walking out would be:
- walk out on states that refuse to separate church and state;
- walk out on states with fewer than three viable political parties;
- walk out on states with "live fire" military forces in more than two foreign countries; and,
- walk out on states with gradated human rights (eg sexual, religious, political).

Hmm, maybe I'll add to this list later ...

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