UN Human Rights Council to open first session with US as member

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Deutsche Presse Agentur

UN Human Rights Council to open first session with US as member
Posted : Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:41:15 GMT
Author : DPA

Geneva - The United Nations Human Rights Council was opening its autumn session on Monday, with the United States assuming a seat on the body for the first time. However, a debate of how to deal with Honduras was holding up the start by several hours, diplomats said.

The Central American country underwent a military takeover since the last council session, leading to confusion on how to handle the country's representative, who has sided with the coup leaders.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, was expected to criticize the constitutional crisis there in her opening remarks to the council.

Earlier this year, the US was elected to the 47-member council that the administration of former president George W Bush had shunned since it came into existence in 2006, saying it was biased.

Read more: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/285558,un-human-rights-council-to-open-first-session-with-us.html

[Indenturedebtor]

1. It will be worth a little more than a fart in the wind

IF it ever censures an oil-rich, or even otherwise rich country.

[Soylent Brice]

2. the blatant hypocrisy will be sure to stink the place up... n/t

[dipsydoodle]

3. From 54 years ago.

In 1955, the New York Times reported from the United Nations that "The United States has begun a drive to scuttle a section of the proposed Covenant of Human Rights which poses a threat to its business interests abroad."

The offending section dealt with the right of peoples to self-determination and to permanent sovereignty over their natural wealth and resources. Said the newspaper: "It declares in effect that any country has the right to nationalize its resources ..."

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Guatemala_KH.htm...