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Article: Human Rights Groups Worldwide Call on UN Members to Reject Belarus' Candidacy
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 2, 2007
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Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
Belarus' record on human rights makes the country a supremely unfit candidate for the United Nations Human Rights Council, a coalition of more than 40 national and international human rights groups said today.
These organizations, based in countries ranging from Cameroon to Uzbekistan, called on UN General Assembly members not to vote Belarus onto the Council, which is the UN's top human rights body. The elections to the Council, which was created last year as part of UN reforms, will take place on May 17. "Belarus has an appalling human rights record," said Peggy Hicks, global advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. "Belarus' ...