AI - UN Commission on Human Rights : Where is the reform agenda?

  Posted by Siriel Admin 2004 Apr 30 - 3:07pm 

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Amnesty International – Press release, 22/04/2004

“The UN Commission on Human Rights has demonstrated that it must reform itself if it is to fulfil its responsibility to protect human rights and denounce violations wherever they occur,” Amnesty International said.
(...) Amnesty International regrets the Commission’s failure to address many other serious human rights situations.

-The Commission failed to adopt the draft resolutions on China, the Chechen Republic, Zimbabwe and the detainees in Guantanamo Bay. (...) -Discussion of the human rights situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories continued to be dominated by political considerations.

The Commission’s complete lack of engagement with the human rights situation in Iraq was a powerful example of its inability to address one of the starkest human rights situations of the day.

To read this AI press release :

http://news.amnesty.org/mav/index/ENGIOR410262004