Syria to keep seat on UN human rights committee

[IDemo]

Source: msnbc.com

U.N. cultural agency UNESCO is set to condemn Syria at its executive board meeting on Wednesday but fall short of Western and Arab hopes of expelling it from its human rights committee, according to a draft resolution obtained by Reuters.

The U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO) executive board, which includes the United States, France and Russia, elected Syria to two panels in November, including one that judges human rights violations.

A group of Western and Arab nations had sought the expulsion of Syria from the U.N. cultural agency's human rights committee, the latest international effort to isolate Damascus over its violent crackdown on domestic unrest.

The resolution submitted by countries including Saudi Arabia, the United States and the Britain condemns Damascus for "the continued widespread and systematic violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Syrian authorities."

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[dipsydoodle]

1. Sometimes

you really can't make absurd this shit like this up.

[David__77]

2. Ridiculous that Saudi Arabia stands in judgment of Syria.

A country where women cannot even drive, versus one in which women may freely walk around unveiled, and sit in the highest organs of power. In case one doesn't know, the latter is Syria.

[Snake Alchemist]

3. Meet the new League of Nations. nt