UN Watch urges U.S. to use U.N. rights council membership to confront Orwellian agenda of world's worst abusers

UN Watch
March 31, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/242/un-watch-urges-us-to-use-un-rights-council

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 GENEVA, March 31, 2009 — Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch, issued the following statement regarding the U.S. decision to run for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council:

The three-year old council is even worse than the discredited predecessor it was meant to reform. Pathologically obsessed with scapegoating Israel -- in more than 80 percent of all country resolutions (26 out of 33) -- the council's sessions legitimize perpetrators while turning a blind eye to millions of human rights victims around the world.

Whether we like it or not, the council is a permanent forum with global influence on hearts and minds. This is in contrast to the one-week Durban II conference, a passing threat that can and should be avoided. UN Watch therefore welcomes the U.S. decision to join the council, but only if it's to vigorously push back against the world's worst abusers and their Orwellian agenda.

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