(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - During a meeting in Geneva Thursday, Minister of Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky asked High Commissioner of the UN's Human Rights Commission Louise Arbour, how is it that Israel, a democratic nation which has many mechanisms to monitor human rights violations, is the only country to receive a "special" status in the commission's annual report on human rights across the globe and is the only country that is given a chapter of its own, while some UN members are totalitarian states in which citizens have no rights? Arbour replied that she hopes that in the framework of the new reforms being discussed in the UN, Israel will receive more balanced treatment, especially in forums that deal with human rights.
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