2006-05-10 17:08:53

Human Rights Council


(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... RealAudioMP3








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