(10 May 06 - RV) Debate continues over the choice of member nations to sit on the
United Nations new Human Rights council, due to open its first session in Geneva on
June 19th.
The new U.N. Human Rights Council replaces the former
Human Rights Commission which after 60 years, had become widely discredited for its
political stagnation and inability to swiftly address human rights violations in countries
around the world.
the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the UN in Geneva, Archbishop
Silvano Tomasi, says we must give the new body a chance...