Monday, October 1, 2007
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
NGO Monitor: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch criticize UN Human Rights Council - Are They Finally Getting the Message? - 'In a July 2007 statement The Human Rights Council: A New Era in UN Human Rights Work?, Yvonne Terlingen, director of Amnesty International’s offices at the UN, criticized the activity of the supposedly ‘reformed’ UN Human Rights Council. Discussing the Council's actions during three special sessions in 2006 covering the “Occupied Palestinian Territories,†Terlingen offered the following observations concerning the failings of the Council to uphold its mandate...'
