_________ U.N. Human Rights Meeting Protects Oppressors - Mexico supports U.S. on Terrorism*** Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists and the International Federation of Human Rights said they were dismayed that Mexico withdrew a resolution urging that counterterrorist measures be compatible with international humanitarian law. The U.N. human rights commissioner would have been responsible for monitoring and analyzing those measures, according to the resolution.
The United States - which has been criticized widely for its treatment of suspected al-Qaida and Taliban fighters at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba and its detentions of Middle Eastern nationals who violated visa regulations - opposed the resolution. "This could have been one of the most important outcomes from this Commission, but instead has become one of its lowest points," the advocacy groups said in a statement.***