UN Human Rights Council as anti-Israeli as ever, says U.S. lawmaker
U.S. Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs Esther Brimmer's speech included a "disingenuous declaration that U.S. membership in the council was especially beneficial for Israel." But Friday’s events solidified perception of the President Barack Obama's dangerous disinterest in Israel’s welfare, a former U.S. police officer now living in Israel told the Law Enforcement Examiner. In 2006, the Bush administration and its U.N. ambassador John Bolton opposed this “reform” on the grounds that the changes were superficial and there were no membership criteria for election to what was, after all, the U.N.’s top human rights body. The European Union, however, was bought off by including a five-year review plan. That review ended Friday with the adoption of yet another anti-Israeli resolution. According to the Law Enforcement Examiner's Israeli intelligence source, the Human Rights Commission spent 40 years adopting country-specific criticisms, a third of which condemned Israel. Fifty percent of the “reformed” council’s country-specific resolutions and decisions are devoted to Israel-bashing. There have been 12 special sessions in the last five years, and half of them have been on Israel alone. There has been only ONE “urgent debate” on a country – Israel.“The UN Human Rights Council remains as broken and anti-Israel as ever. The recently-concluded Five-Year Review process did nothing to fix the Council’s biggest flaws, namely its utter absence of membership standards and its permanent agenda item on Israel," said the fiery conservative congresswoman.
“In the years to come, the Council will continue to focus on relentlessly condemning Israel, while ignoring human rights abuses by the likes of China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia, who continue to serve as members of the Council," she added.
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Today's resolution is the first UN resolution ever to bring specific focus to human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and follows a joint statement on these issues delivered at the March session of the council. It affirms the universality of human rights, and notes concern about acts of violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
(Geneva) - In a groundbreaking achievement for upholding the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution on human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity (L.9/Rev.1).
The resolution, presented by South Africa along with Brazil and 39 additional co-sponsors from all regions of the world, was passed by a vote of 23 in favor, 19 against, and 3 abstentions. A list of how States voted is attached. In its presentation to Council, South Africa recalled the UDHR noting that "everyone is entitled to all rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind" and Brazil called on the Council to "open the long closed doors of dialogue".
Today's resolution is the first UN resolution ever to bring specific focus to human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and follows a joint statement on these issues delivered at the March session of the council. It affirms the universality of human rights, and notes concern about acts of violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This commitment of the Human Rights Council sends an important signal of support to human rights defenders working on these issues, and recognizes the legitimacy of their work.
"The South African government has now offered progressive leadership, after years of troubling and inconsistent positions on the issue of sexual orientation and gender identity," said Dawn Cavanagh, Coalition of African Lesbians. "Simultaneously, the government has set a standard for themselves in international spaces. We look forward to contributing to and supporting sustained progressive leadership by this government and seeing the end of the violations we face daily."
The resolution requests the High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a study on violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and calls for a panel discussion to be held at the Human Rights Council to discuss the findings of the study in a constructive and transparent manner, and to consider appropriate follow-up.
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