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Bayefsky: US Must Withdraw from HRC over Israel-Bashing
April 06, 2016
Anne Bayefsky writes that, in light of the annual ritual in which the UN Human Rights Council ("HRC") adopts an array of resolutions condemning Israel for rights violations, and a condemnation of Israel by the UN Commission on the Status of Women for violating the rights of Palestinian women, the US must refuse to sit on the HRC and decline to "legitimize" the UN.
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UN Lacks Information on Needs for Syrian Relief Effort
April 06, 2016
George Russell reports that the UN, in large part due to bureaucratic obstacles and "intimidation" by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has little understanding of the needs on the ground in Syria for the international organization's relief effort.
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UK Denies Any Effect of UN Commission Ruling on Falklands
April 06, 2016
Responding to Argentina's claim that a ruling by the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf expands the country's maritime territory to include the Falkland Islands, which are under the control of the UK, the British Foreign Office has stated that the Commission "has no jurisdiction over the sovereignty" of the islands.
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Rhodes: US Must Reject Cuba's Version of "Human Rights"
April 05, 2016
Criticizing US President Barack Obama's expression of sympathy with Cuba President Raul Castro's model of economic and social "human rights," human rights activist Aaron Rhodes has called for the US to continue to pressure other countries and the UN system to reject the false equivalency between such "rights" and basic civil and political human rights.
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Abrams Criticizes Selection of UN Observer on Palestine
April 05, 2016
Senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations Elliott Abrams writes that the UN's selection of Michael Lynk as Special Rapporteur on Palestinian issues in spite of a long train of Lynk's expressions of bias against Israel is a "despicable" development but also "par for the course" in a UN system that has disproportionately targeted Israel on human rights issues.
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