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Resources updated between Monday, June 15, 2009 and Sunday, June 21, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
The 11th session of the Human Rights Council, which ended on Friday, included two apologies from the Obama administration for missing Durban II. Obama officials also lauded countries and UN officials for working to improve the Durban II outcome and re-focusing the conference on fighting racism. No effort was made to distance itself from the actual conference - which sported an antisemite as opening speaker - or its outcome which singled out and demonized Israel as racist.
The administration is pursuing actively its new policy of engagement at the Council and ingratiating itself with the human rights abusers who count as Council members and biggest supporters of the Durban process and its outcome. So in the context of the first Council discussion since the conclusion of the conference of Durban and the UN "anti-racism" agenda, two U.S. officials declared on June 16th: "It was with regret that we did not join the recent Durban Review Conference."
In the words of Anna Morawiec Mansfield, Deputy Legal Adviser of the United States Mission in Geneva (speaking during the "interactive dialogue" with the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance), and repeated by Mark Cassayre, First Secretary of the United States Mission in Geneva, in a later discussion:
June 19, 2009
June 18, 2009
Israel-UN spat over Syria 'bias' Article
Vote on draft resolution as amended: 20 in favor, 18 against, and 9 abstentions
Draft Resolution on the Human rights situation in Sudan Development
Vote on draft resolution: 20 in favor, 19 against, and 8 abstentions
Amendments to Draft Resolution on the Human rights situation in Sudan Development
June 17, 2009
Iran 'would like nuclear option' Article
June 16, 2009
June 15, 2009