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March 15, 2006
New York: Meet the New Human Rights Commission...
Meet the new Human Rights Commission, same as the old Human Rights Commission. The "new and improved" commission, of course, will be called the Human Rights Council, and it will still spend its time examining the "gross human righs abuses" of American prisons while ignoring the Islam-inspired genocide in Sudan. I would be outraged, if only I had expected any better from the U.N.: UN Members Create New Human Rights Panel Amid U.S. Opposition
March 15 (Bloomberg) -- One hundred seventy United Nations member governments voted to create the Human Rights Council, a major restructuring of the world body opposed by the U.S. on the grounds that abusive governments could still hold seats.The panel will replace a discredited commission based in Geneva, which Secretary-General Kofi Annan said cast a "shadow on the reputation" of the UN because of its inclusion of accused rights violators Cuba, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
"Absent stronger mechanisms for maintaining credible membership, the United States could not join consensus on this resolution," U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said. "We did not have sufficient confidence in this text to be able to say that the Human Rights Council would be better than its predecessor."
The new council will have 47 members that will convene in Geneva for the first time in June and meet for 10 weeks throughout the year. Membership will be open to all 191 UN member governments and be based on "equitable geographic distribution," according to the resolution adopted today.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at March 15, 2006 3:24 PM
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