March 9, 2006

US reaffirms “no” vote on new UN rights council, Reuters

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This is the same Irene Khan, secretary-general of Amnesty International, that refused to vote against the 2001 Durban NGO Declaration that said Zionism is racism. This is also the same Irene Khan who said in the foreword to the organization's 2005 annual report: "The detention facility at Guantánamo Bay has become the gulag of our times...." Her credibility about recognizing an effective human rights instrument is dubious, to say the least - unless a new UN Human Rights Council which is certain to put the U.S. in the enemy camp and increase the demonization of Israel is the goal.