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Islamic Bloc Controls 1/3 of Seats On UNHRC
Sixteen countries — one third of the total membership of the UN Human Rights Council are members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, following elections to the UNHRC for it’s new term.
The civilized world was able to block Sri Lanka from another term, but both Pakistan and Bahrain were elected to the council. So were two African serial-rights violators, Gabon and Zambia.
All 192 U.N. member states voted by secret ballot for candidates in each of the five regional groups recognized by the world body.
The election saw no contest to fill four vacant seats in Africa and three in Latin America, and they were taken respectively by Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana and Zambia, and Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Read the rest of this entry »
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