HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATIONS THAT REQUIRE THE COUNCIL’S ATTENTION
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General Debate on Human Rights Situations that Require the Council’s Attention
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BENTE ANGELL-HANSEN (Norway) said the Human Rights Council had a strong mandate to engage in all human rights violations. In this session it had addressed several countries including Somalia and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Norway would be actively engaged in those. …
JEAN DAMY (Luxembourg) said that Luxembourg was worried about the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and everywhere where war was raging such as in Sudan. …
RI TONG IL (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) said human rights were inviolable rights inherent to every human being. In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, they were protected and firmly guaranteed in every legal aspect, and all people fully enjoyed their human rights and fundamental freedoms; the Government viewed it as the supreme principle in its activities to steadily improve the people's living standard and was making every possible effort to ensure human rights were provided for people on a higher level. It was also committed to the implementation of its international obligations in good faith. Human rights issues should be addressed strictly based on the principle of respect for national sovereignty, and in countries where this was trampled on such as Iraq, Afghanistan, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and others, innocent people fell victim of the war on terror and their human rights and fundamental freedoms were violated. The principle of equality, impartiality and objectivity should be observed in addressing human rights issues, and it was totally unacceptable to table and discuss so-called resolutions that selectively named and attacked individual countries. The issue of human rights violations committed in the colonial countries in the past should be addressed in a righteous manner.
GERALD CORR (Ireland) … said that Ireland remained deeply concerned about … The human rights situation in Iran was deteriorating, including with arrests and aggressive Government reaction to protests. There were continuing injustices in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including discriminatory evictions and home demolitions of Palestinian families. …
WALID ABU-HAYA (Israel) said the Iranian people had been living under the bondage of tyranny for the last three decades. Since the presidential election fraud in Iran, these violations had dramatically escalated, and peaceful acts of protest had been suppressed with an iron fist by the revolutionary guards and the Basij militia. Israel called upon this Council to break its silence and to take firm action to address the situation and ease the suffering of the Iranian people. Israel also welcomed the signing of a framework peace accord between the Sudanese Government and the Darfur rebels in Doha in 2010, as a slight ray of hope within that region. Israel was concerned by the devastating civil war in Somalia. Further, it expressed its great concern at the deplorable human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and the deteriorating human rights situation in Myanmar and Fiji.
MESBAH ANSARI (Iran), speaking in a right of reply regarding references made to Iran, said Iran first and foremost regretted that the representative of an entity which had been involved in war crimes and crimes against humanity, among others, had addressed the Council under this item. These were tireless practices aimed at distracting attention from the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and elsewhere in the region. …
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