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Rights group: U.N. council’s Haiti parley is “harmful diversion”
Today’s decision by the UN’s 47-nation Human Rights Council to convene a special session on Haiti this Wednesday is “a harmful waste of the organization’s precious time, resources, and moral capital,” said a human rights watchdog group.
“Haiti is a dire emergency for which this council has the capacity to do absolutely nothing,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based monitoring organization. The UNHRC is mandated to protect and promote human rights, but has no budget or authority concerning humanitarian aid.
(2010/01/26 - global post ) |