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Topic started on 18-3-2010 @ 08:47 AM by ModernAcademia

U.S. will undergo human rights scrutiny


www.washingtonpost.com
Rolling out the State Department's latest human rights report, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that, for the first time, the United States will submit itself to a process in which its record might be judged by some of the world's worst human rights abusers.

"universal periodic review" process, run by the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Critics say the 47-member council, which was established in March 2006 to replace the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, has been hijacked since its i
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