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International-UN-NGOs
Saudi Arabia 'seeking to head United Nations Human Rights Council'
2015-05-23
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
is reportedly planning to make a bid to head the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
' Human Rights Council, in a move that has been described as the "final nail in the coffin for the credibility" of the HRC.

Reports of the bid come just days after Saudi Arabia posted a job advertisement for eight new executioners. This year it has already put 85 people to death in what has been branded by Amnesia Amnesty International a "macabre spike" from the 87 people it killed in total last year.

The country will move to assume lead control over the HRC after 2016 when the presidency is awarded to a new nation.

UN Watch, a non-profit human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
group that monitors the international body, disclosed Saudi Arabia's intentions in a recent report and urged the United States to fight against it.

Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, said that the move was liable to be "the final nail in the coffin for the credibility of a body that already counts dictatorships like China, Cuba and Russia as members, and whose top advisor is co-founder of the Muammar Qadaffy
... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV...
Human Rights Prize".
Posted by:Fred

#2  freedom of religion,women and press come to mind.
Posted by: paul   2015-05-23 08:19  

#1  Now I've heard everything.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-05-23 03:17