That would seem to lead to my next question.
We're seeing governments of a number of western democracies, including Canada and the United Kingdom, incapable of speaking the word “genocide” as it applies to the treatment by ISIS of women, girls, and men, religious minorities in Iraq and Syria, because of the dysfunction at the UN in the Security Council where, because of China and Russia vetoes, the Security Council is incapable of directing the International Criminal Court to proceed against ISIS.
This would seem to address or speak to your last suggestion that governments have a moral responsibility to speak above the United Nations.