Amb. Bou-Said Joint efforts with UN Watch and HR Foundation on the New elections today at the Counci

OCTOBER 12, 2018 BY IHRC

" Following the process of the entry of 18 countries into the Human Rights Council, the Middle East Commissioner for the International Human Rights Commission Ambassador Dr. Haitham Abu Said said that there is a big error in the level of the new members of the countries, as it turns out that there are countries that do not deserve to have a terrible history in the application of the law International Human Rights.  . ”

Ambassador Abu Said considered that if this happens, he may be forced to freeze the work pending clarification of the matter and the defect that may occur. He supported the tripartite joint report, which refused the facts as follows: 

UNQUALIFIED 

 Six candidates have poor records and fail to qualify: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Eritrea, Philippines, Somalia 

QUESTIONABLE

Four candidates have problematic human rights and UN voting records: Burkina Faso, Fiji, India, Togo 

QUALIFIED 

Only eight candidate countries are qualified to be council members: Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Uruguay The absence of competition this year in all five regional slates undermines the very premise and rationale for holding elections.