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Joseph Loconte and Nile Gardiner

The human rights charade at the UN

By Joseph Loconte and Nile Gardiner
March 22, 2006

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THE TRAGEDY of the latest United Nations effort to reform its discredited Human Rights Commission, approved last week by the General Assembly, is not that it's a breathtaking defense of the status quo. It surely appears to be. Under the rules governing the new Human Rights Council, not even genocidal states such as Sudan could be categorically denied membership. (Full article: 714 words)

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