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June 16, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/un-human-rights-council-coddles-iran

UN Human Rights Council Coddles Iran

(Weekly Standard) Anne Bayefsky - Just as Iranians were reminded of their stolen June 2009 election and continued oppression, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a decision on human rights in Iran that was a sentence long and contained no condemnation whatsoever. The context was a review by the Council of Iran's human rights record, as part of the Council's consideration of all 192 UN states. The "outcome" was a sentence identical for dictatorships and democracies alike, in which the Council merely refers to a bundle of documents containing praise, criticisms and responses without drawing any conclusion attributable to the Council itself.

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