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Your New Human Rights Councilor; Vietnam invents a U.N. procedure to silence critics.
Opinion 31 July 2012 The Wall Street Journal Online Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Security Council’s latest fumble on Syria might represent the U.N.’s biggest failure of the last month, but it’s hardly the only one. So as a reminder of all the little things the U.N. also gets wrong, we…
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Human rights organizations deplore UN’s caving in to Vietnam regarding consultative status of NGO
Viet Nam: UN caves in to Vietnamese pressure, rejects the consultative status of the NGO KKF JOINT PRESS RELEASE – THE OBSERVATORY Viet Nam: UN caves in to Vietnamese pressure, rejects human rights group’s consultative status Bangkok-Paris-Geneva, July 24, 2012. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (an FIDH and OMCT joint…