The UN racism forum

"UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said she was "shocked and deeply disappointed" by the boycotts" of the US, Australia, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands and Canada. The UN argument is that countries that refuse to participate in this debate must not take the issue of racism seriously, or are passing up the chance to take on rogue states within the normal UN process.
I disagree with this. There comes a point when UN bodies like the "Human Rights Tribunal" or the "UN racism forum" become such Orwellian caricatures of themselves that the entire body must be abandoned and left to die. Any group that attempts to pass declarations requiring countries to outlaw criticism of religions has lost all relevance or moral claim.
The danger is that this is happening on a much larger and more important scale with the UN security council. With amoral, undemocratic countries wielding their veto pen whenever they feel like it- as China does whenever it's Sudanese clients are threatened with condemnation- the United Nations itself is slowly dying of irrelevance. Ban Ki Moon is right to say that countries should debate these issues, but he is wrong when he thinks only the UN is capable of hosting such a forum.