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Förra veckan nämnde jag Kubas försök att göra FN:s råd för mänskliga rättigheter tandlös. Denna veckan ser det inte ljusare ut. Zimbabwe, som inte ens är medlemmar av rådet, fick igenom ett förslag om att övergrepp i Uzbekistan och i Iran inte skulle studeras närmare. Viss hjälp kunde man räkna med, men en del länder som man kunde förvänta sig mer av lade ner sina röster.
Aaron Rhodes, executive director of the International Helsinki Federation For Human Rights, says the March 26 decision was ”disastrous” and makes it clear that so far, the council has failed in its stated mission.
”What ought to be said is that this is a signal to countries that they have nothing to worry about from the Human Rights Council if they abuse their own citizens,” Rhodes says.
The vote on Iran and Uzbekistan was conducted behind closed doors, so a complete details of what happened — based on diplomatic sources — has trickled out slowly.
But the picture that emerges is troubling. For one, says Rhodes, it appears the old way of doing business that so undermined the UN Human Rights Commission continues at the new council.
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Among the countries that abstained from voting against Tehran and Tashkent, according to Hicks, were Japan, South Korea, Brazil, and Switzerland.
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