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Article: Nobel Peace Laureates Urge Creation of New UN Human Rights Council; Signatories Call for Broad International Support for Initiative

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February 24, 2006
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NEW YORK, Feb. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Nobel Peace Prize Laureates today called for the endorsement of a new United Nations Human Rights Council by the international community. The letter was released following Thursday's presentation of the Council framework by UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson.

A joint initiative from Jose Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the letter says that the proposed new Council "will be more responsive to human rights violations and fairer in its review of human rights practices. It will also preserve and build on the strengths of the existing Commission on Human Rights."

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