National Post. Mar 16, 2012
GENEVA — I have spent the past few days in Geneva with some of the most remarkably brave people one is ever likely to meet. All have suffered horrendously for calling for freedoms in their countries — the kind of freedoms that people elsewhere take for granted.
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Veteran dissident Ren Wanding addresses activists in Beijing in 1998. Wanding spoke at UN Watch’s alternative human rights summit this month.
Veteran dissident Ren Wanding addresses activists in Beijing in 1998. Wandinspoke at UN Watch’s alternative human rights summit this month.
GENEVA — I have spent the past few days in Geneva with some of the most remarkably brave people one is ever likely to meet. All have suffered horrendously for calling for freedoms in their countries — the kind of freedoms that people elsewhere take for granted.But none of them were invited to Geneva by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the UN’s most prominent body that is supposed to deal with human rights, which is meeting here in annual session.
This is the organization behind the infamous and now discredited “Goldstone report” on Gaza. This is the organization that in 2009 praised Sri Lanka’s human rights record shortly after that country’s military had killed 40,000 Tamil civilians. Full Story>>>
