Yay! Syria poised to join U.N. Human Rights Council

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Amid brutal crackdown, Syria poised to join UN Human Rights Council

But diplomats and human rights advocates are calling for Syria to be kept off the council when the UN General Assembly votes on new members next month.



By Howard LaFranchi, Staff writer / April 26, 2011
Washington

Massacring dozens of its own citizens one day – elected to the United Nations’ top human rights group the next?

That’s the trajectory Syria is on, meaning that the once-dependably stable but now-bloodied domain of President Bashar al-Assad could join the United States and 45 other countries on the UN Human Rights Council.

After state-directed violence against civilians has left some 400 Syrians dead, a rising chorus of diplomats and human rights advocates is calling for Syria to be kept off the council when the UN General Assembly votes on new members May 20.

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The rising consternation over Syria’s Human Rights Council candidacy is part of mounting international efforts to punish the Assad regime for its increasingly violent response to spreading protests.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2011/0426/Amid-brutal-crackdown-Syria-poised-to-join-UN-Human-Rights-Council

[Odin2005]

1. The UN HRC is a fucking joke.

[provis99]

2. the whole UN is a fucking joke.

[xchrom]

3. Considering America's incarceration rates & what the police, etc

Did to citizens of Katrina , etc --maybe Syria on the HRC is fine or at least Americans should shut up.

[cali]

4. uh, no. that's absurd.

Why the fuck should I shut up because I live here? And no, Katrina isn't analogous. When you get shot in the street by the armed forces, that's the same thing.