States Attack Human Rights Experts at UN Rights Body

Article 19
June 12, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/382

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  In an open letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council, thirty-five human rights organisations from every region of the world warned that recent "extraordinary attacks" by states on United Nations human rights experts at the Human Rights Council was "severely eroding the Council's legitimacy and credibility."        

 

According to this global group of NGOs, which included international NGOs such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, as well as regional and national NGOs like the Asian Forum for Human Rights (Forum Asia) and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, state delegations at the Council are carrying out "what appears to be a coordinated effort to intimidate" human rights experts, "individually and collectively."   

 

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