NYT: U.N. Approves New Human Rights Council Despite U.S. Objection

[DeepModem Mom]

U.N. Approves New Human Rights Council Despite U.S. Objection
By WARREN HOGE
Published: March 15, 2006


UNITED NATIONS, March 15 — With the United States in virtually lone opposition, the United Nations overwhelmingly approved a new Human Rights Council today to replace the widely discredited Human Rights Commission.

The vote in the 191-nation General Assembly was 170 to 4, with three abstentions....

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Secretary General Kofi Annan, who first proposed the council a year ago, hailed the decision, saying, "This gives the United Nations the chance — a much-needed chance — to make a new beginning in its work for human rights around the world."

But John R. Bolton, the United States ambassador, said the proposed council was "not sufficiently improved" over the commission, which has been faulted for permitting notorious rights abusers to become members.

"We must not let the victims of human rights abuses throughout the world think that U.N. member states were willing to settle for 'good enough,' " Mr. Bolton said in a statement after the vote. "We must not let history remember us as the architects of a council that was a 'compromise' and merely 'the best we could do' rather than one that ensured doing 'all we could do' to promote human rights."...


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/15/international/15cnd-nations.html?hp&ex=1142485200&en=2f0627a1f8116328&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Good. Let's hope they ignore Bolton out on his ass.

[maddezmom]

2. glad it passed, sad the US was the only no vote

:eyes:

[Delphinus]

3. Well, we weren't the *only* no,

but the fact that we voted against it says an awful lot about who's in there representing us.

[Blaze Diem]

4. We must ignore Bolton!

"We must not let the victims ..."We must not let history...

HAAAA..UN says we must ignore Bolton, tool of buchcoUSA.

Well this has been a really crappy week for the bullying branch of bushco..
hope someone stands up to the bush reich every week until they have no power left.

Let the momentum begin....

[Rex]

5. Victims of human rights abuses throughout the world

how much of that abuse comes from America today as opposed to say 10 years ago? The more countries we abuse, the more they switch from US currency to the Euro. Keep it up morans.

[EFerrari]

6. Fuck you, Bolton. The world is standing up to witness.

:kick:

[wellst0nev0ter]

7. U.S., Israel, Marshall Islands and Palau

Sure glad we're in the international mainstream :eyes:

[gasperc]

8. the axis of....

irrelevance