Dysfunctional UN

UN notes anti-corruption with tokenism, Events are being held in countries around the world on Thursday to mark the first United Nations anti-corruption day. Nations including Bangladesh, Germany, Colombia and Morocco are marking the occasion with workshops, rallies, and the release of research. The World Bank estimates that more than $1,000bn is paid out in bribes every year around the globe. And it says corruption takes place in rich nations as well as poor ones. To highlight the scale of the problem and efforts to fight it, the UN initiated the anti-corruption day.
09-Dec-04, Andrew McArthy, NRO (US), International Law Targets American Sovereignty, It is high time for the American people to ask: Just what is international law? Is it a body of obligations, rooted in the principles of consent and comity, that provides sovereign nations with a path toward avoiding provocation and bloodshed? Or is it a subversion by which foreign entities and their activist nongovernmental organizations trump democratic choices and sovereign self-determination?