This is what this amounts to:
Israel became the first country to boycott a required U.N. review of countries' human-rights practices, citing what it called the body's strong bias against it.And not a moment too soon. Because when you read the list of U.N. Human Rights Council honorable members, some of it reads like... oh well, judge by yourself: I copied it down below (since it changes from time to time). Just another quote from the same article before you look at the list:
More than half the council's resolutions since it started work in 2006 have focused on Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Israeli-occupied and Israeli-controlled areas, The New York Times said.
Washington boycotted the council during the George W. Bush administration but reversed its position during the Obama administration.
| Angola | 2013 |
| Argentina | 2015 |
| Austria | 2014 |
| Benin | 2014 |
| Botswana | 2014 |
| Brazil | 2015 |
| Burkina Faso | 2014 |
| Chile | 2014 |
| Congo | 2014 |
| Costa Rica | 2014 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 2015 |
| Czech Republic | 2014 |
| Ecuador | 2013 |
| Estonia | 2015 |
| Ethiopia | 2015 |
| Gabon | 2015 |
| Germany | 2015 |
| Guatemala | 2013 |
| India | 2014 |
| Indonesia | 2014 |
| Ireland | 2015 |
| Italy | 2014 |
| Japan | 2015 |
| Kazakhstan | 2015 |
| Kenya | 2015 |
| Kuwait | 2014 |
| Libya * | 2013 |
| Malaysia | 2013 |
| Maldives | 2013 |
| Mauritania | 2013 |
| Montenegro | 2015 |
| Pakistan | 2015 |
| Peru | 2014 |
| Philippines | 2014 |
| Poland | 2013 |
| Qatar | 2013 |
| Republic of Korea | 2015 |
| Republic of Moldova | 2013 |
| Romania | 2014 |
| Sierra Leone | 2015 |
| Spain | 2013 |
| Switzerland | 2013 |
| Thailand | 2013 |
| Uganda | 2013 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2015 |
| United States of America | 2015 |
| Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 2015 |
2 comments:
Be hard to find so many despots in the same place at the same time.
At least we know now where to look for them in case of need.
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