UN Human Rights Council Institutionalizes Egregious Discrimination Against Israel
The President of the UN Human Rights Council, Luis Alfonso de Alba, facilitated the permanent institutionalization of discrimination against Israel at the UN's lead human rights body. On June 13, 2007 he circulated to the Council's fifth session in Geneva a proposed text concerning the Council's future operations that called for only one UN member state become part of the Council's permanent agenda: Israel. Then on June 18, 2007 the Council adopted the de Alba text with some minor modifications: a fixed agenda for all future meetings focusing attention permanently on only one country's human rights record, that of Israel. This was coupled with a framework for every future program of work which decides – in advance of even considering the agenda item – that the subject will be about Israeli "human rights violations." All other 191 UN member states may – or may not - come up under an agenda item entitled "Human rights situations that require the Council's attention."I. | Principles ... |
II. | Agenda ... Item 7. Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories |
III. | Framework for the Program of Work ... Item 7. Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
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