Human Rights Council Meeting March 2014 - Another Farce

By  Brian Senewiratne  - March 5, 2014

Dr. Brian Senewiratne

Here we go again. It is carnival time (or shopping time or sight-seeing time) again in Geneva as the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council kicks off on 3 March 2014.

On 15 March 2012 Two years ago I wrote an article (still On the net [1] ), titled "UN Human Rights Council Meting. Another Farce ".

I started with

" This is not a document for Easy reading, nor is meant to be IT. It is a reasonably comprehensive record of the abysmal record of the UN and the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in addressing human rights violations.  

I am not going to repeat this comprehensive article.

A few days ago I was completing another article:

"Sri Lanka. Rape of Tamil women, men and children by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and their collaborators ".

It is for release on International Women's Day 2014, March 8.

In the opening pages, I dealt with the various legal and human rights bodies. Here is what I wrote about the UN Human Rights Council:

"The UN Human Rights Council (UN HRC) in Geneva sits at every Three months. IT is just a talk-Shop, a political One at that (not consisting of experts in Human rights), that does nothing, eases Its Outstanding Head, High Commissioner Navanethem Pillay .   

Pillay is only the Head of the HRC [2]  - not the HRC. She has asked for an Independent International Investigation into what happened in the closing stages of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka (18 May 2009) for years. Happened Yet nothing has.                                                                                        Read More