UN approves new human rights council to replace flawed commission
16 March 2006
March 16, 2006
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to set up a new human rights organization in spite of opposition from the United States and Israel. The measure to create a Human Rights Council to replace the Human Rights Commission passed on Wednesday by a vote of 170-4, with three abstentions. Israel and America were in favor of replacing the old human rights body, which had included some of the world’s worst human rights offenders, but felt the resolution did not go far enough. “This resolution contains worrying omissions, including the absence of sufficient benchmarks for membership, which poses the danger that the new Council would not be a significant improvement over its predecessor,” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman, said in an address to the UN General Assembly. “Israel believes that the General Assembly should not allow those responsible for the failure of the Commission on Human Rights to lead the Council down the same road.”
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