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Bid To Suspend Venezuela From UN Human Rights Council
UN Watch Blog ^ | September 11, 2015 | UN Watch

Posted on 09/11/2015 2:41:37 PM PDT by OddLane

The United States, France, Germany and the United Kingdom were asked today to take action at a UN session that opens on Monday to suspend Venezuela from its membership on the world body’s 47-nation Human Rights Council, in reaction to the controversial Caracas verdict of 13 years in jail issued yesterday against opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, and over other “gross and systematic violations of human rights.”

The draft resolution was submitted today to the four influential UNHRC member states by the Geneva-based non-governmental organization UN Watch, which recently invited Mr. Lopez’s wife, Lilian Tintori, to address the council.

The text calls for the dispatch of an independent commission of inquiry to Venezuela, and for the suspension of Venezuela from the council, which has a precedent in the UNHRC’s 2011 ousting of Libya’s Gaddafi regime from its membership.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: venezuela

1 posted on 09/11/2015 2:41:37 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

Because they’re too poor to hang with the rich guys or they don’t want to be reminded that socialism doesn’t work?


2 posted on 09/11/2015 2:57:47 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: OddLane
Bid To Suspend Venezuela From UN Human Rights Council

The fact that Venezuela was on it to start with tells you everything you need to know about the UN and the UN "Human Rights Council".

3 posted on 09/11/2015 3:04:26 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: OddLane

The U.S. should be ********** for funding Planned Parenthood’s killing human beings and selling the body parts to researchers.

Oh the irony!!! Liberals first claim the preborn are not people then turn around and claim they must have human tissue for research!


4 posted on 09/11/2015 3:05:42 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: OddLane

Sorry Venezuala, we can’t spare a square.


5 posted on 09/11/2015 3:20:33 PM PDT by tumblindice (w)
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To: OddLane
Access to toilet paper is a Human Right.


6 posted on 09/11/2015 3:34:12 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: OddLane

JugEars won’t like this; he and Maduro have a bromance going.


7 posted on 09/11/2015 5:47:19 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: OddLane
Bid To Suspend Venezuela From UN Human Rights Council

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Just for grins, Google the current OTHER members of the U.N. Human Rights Council...

8 posted on 09/11/2015 6:38:30 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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