The United Nations

UN Human Rights Council

The UN Human Rights Council was set up in Match 2006 to replace the UN's previous human rights body, the High Commission on Human Rights.

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14 August 2006 WJC appalled by one-sided UN Human Rights Council

Official WJC Statement to the UN Human Rights Council 2nd Special Session
11 August 2006

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WJC Summary Report on 2nd Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council
11 August 2006

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UN High Commission on Human Rights

In June 2001 the WJC issued a formal statement to the UN High Commission on Human Rights, lambasting that body for its plainly discriminatory anti-Israel stances. Addressing the UNHCHR session in Geneva that June, WJC representative Daniel Lack told the body, "Time should not be lost in deploring the fundamentally flawed and selective manner in which this Commission discusses all aspects of the Arab-Israel conflict. Regrettably, however, from the perspective and the protection of human rights, the Commission’s treatment of this and other related agenda items, results in increasingly negative fall-out for the Commission’s own reputation and alas, for the cause of human rights as a whole."

At a session prior to WJC’s rebuke to that body, the Commission adopted a one-sided biased report which accused Israel of breaches of international law. The WJC statement condemning the report for its blatant bias and egregious omissions, as released by the UN, noted: "Not a single word in the entire report is devoted to the avowed policy of ostracizing the State of Israel, the call for genocidal killing of all Jews and Israelis which can be heard, read and seen on a daily basis in all forms of the media, including the Internet, and propagated by such enemies of human rights values, as the Hizbollah, the Jihad and Hamas movements, with whom policy members of the Palestinian Authority increasingly identify. … The Commission should be persuaded to take decisive action to put an end to the creeping process of abuse of human rights processes and mechanisms. The Commission can no longer afford to have its image tarnished and denigrated by transparent and cynical attempts to exploit it’s proceedings for political ends".