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November 17, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.nrg.co.il/

Syria Joins UNESCO Committee on Implementation of Human Rights

(Maariv, 17Nov11) Eli Bardenstein and Amit Cohen - A short time after UNESCO, the UN's organization for education and science, accepted the Palestinian Authority as a full member despite strong U.S. and Israeli opposition, it is now Syria's turn to receive a present from the organization. On Wednesday, the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad was chosen to be the Arab representative on the UNESCO committee the deals with issues relating to the implementation of human rights. UNESCO's decision comes after Assad's regime managed to kill 3,500 demonstrators and arrest tens of thousands, without any due process whatsoever.

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