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Article: Third Committee approves three country-specific texts on human rights despite opposition led by developing countries.
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- November 21, 2007
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M2 PRESSWIRE-21 November 2007-United Nations: Third Committee approves three country-specific texts on human rights despite opposition led by developing countries(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Draft resolutions that would have the General Assembly address the human rights situations in three Member States -- Myanmar, Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea -- were approved today by the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) amid a barrage of objections by many delegations, which maintained that the freshly constituted Human Rights Council was the correct forum to address such concerns.
Several ...