[knighthawk]

``Countries with a terrible human rights record now command a large bloc of votes,'' said Joanna Weschler, the UN representative for the US-based group Human Rights Watch. ``You have a caucus that has one thing in common - a bad human rights record.''

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[breakem]

"At this year's meeting, commission members used a procedural move to block discussion of alleged human rights violations in Zimbabwe, ended scrutiny of Sudan and rejected a resolution condemning Russia's record in Chechnya. They narrowly passed a resolution calling on Cuba to accept a visit by a human rights investigator but failed to approve an amendment criticizing the country's recent crackdown on the opposition - leading to Cuban claims of a ``moral victory.''

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[kelichko]

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