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Israel rejects U.N. assembly vote on Gaza war
Nov 6th, 2009 - Reuters
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel on Friday rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the world body vote as "completely detached from realities.
Israel rejects UN assembly vote on Gaza war
Nov 6th, 2009 - Reuters
JERUSALEM, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Israel on Friday rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza...
U.N. assembly votes for probes of Gaza war charges
Nov 5th, 2009 - Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday urging Israel and the Palestinians to investigate war crimes charges leveled in a controversial U.N...
UN assembly votes for probes of Gaza war charges
Nov 5th, 2009 - Reuters
(Adds details, quotes throughout) UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday urging Israel and the Palestinians to investigate war crimes charges leveled in a controversial U.N...
UN Takes Up Report on Israeli Palestinian War Crimes
Nov 4th, 2009 - VOA News
The U.N. General Assembly began discussion Wednesday of a U.N. report on war crimes allegedly committed by Palestinian militants and the Israeli army during Israel's offensive last December in the Gaza Strip...

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Banned Speech: The UN Council That Created the Goldstone Report
TO SIGN UP OR DONATE: WWW.UNWATCH.ORG Hillel Neuer of UN Watch exposes the hypocrisy of the UN Human Rights Council, the body that created the Goldstone Report. For the first time ever, the Council president ...
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Prequel: APPROVED Speeches at UN Human Rights Council (creator of Goldstone report)
Prequel to banned March 23, 2007 speech by UN Watch's Hillel Neuer to UN Human Rights Council. Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, first president of the council, duly thanks every ...
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Disfigured Terror Victim Confronts Goldstone in U.N. Debate
fired from Gaza into her Ashkelon medical clinic, pointedly accused Judge Richard Goldstone of ignoring her July oral testimony in his report, and of failing to disclose material information concerning the mandate and members of the mission ...
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Noordin Mengal addresses United Nations Human Rights Council
Noordin Mengal addresses UNHRC, Seventh session, 3 to 28 March 2008, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Mar 13, 2008: Baluch representative on behalf of Interfaith International; Issue: Promotion and Protection of all Human Rights ...

Human Rights Council from WikiPedia:

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations System. The UNHRC is the successor to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR, herein CHR), and is a subsidiary body of the United Nations General Assembly. The council works closely with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and engages the United Nations' Special Procedures.

The General Assembly established the UNHRC by adopting a resolution (A/RES/60/251) on 15 March 2006, in order to replace the previous CHR, which had been heavily criticised for having countries with poor human rights records as members. The United States, the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Israel voted against the resolution. The United States said the UNHRC did not have adequate provision to keep states which abused human rights from being on the Council. Belarus, Iran, and Venezuela abstained from voting. Venezuela said that the resolution had some troubling provisions, including the implicit permission for states to intervene in the internal affairs of other states.