{"id":8582,"date":"2007-03-13T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=8582"},"modified":"2007-03-13T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T18:20:00","slug":"khartoum-capers-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=8582","title":{"rendered":"Khartoum Capers [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UN human rights council <\/a>is less than a year old.\n<\/p>\n

\nIt was created to replace the widely discredited human rights commission and action on Darfur is regarded as a key test of the council’s credibility.\n<\/p>\n

\nUp to now the council has censured only one country – Israel – for its actions in Lebanon and Gaza, prompting critics to say the new body is just as politicised and ineffective as the old one. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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At least 200,000 people are estimated to have died in Darfur’s four-year conflict, with millions more displaced. [NB: this is a non-Lancetized estimate]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It stated that if a state was failing to protect its own citizens, “then the international community has to step up to the plate and assume its responsibilities,” [Head of the mission and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jody] Williams told BBC News.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo far, the international response had been “pathetic”, she said.\n<\/p>\n

\n“There are so many hollow threats towards Khartoum, that if I were Khartoum I wouldn’t pay any attention either,” she said.\n<\/p>\n

\n“It is more than a tragedy. It was after Rwanda that people said ‘never again’, and here we are again… and the world sits by.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThe full report is available as a PDF through the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UN human rights council is less than a year old. It was created to replace the widely discredited human rights commission and action on Darfur is regarded as a key test of the council’s credibility. Up to now the council has censured only one country – Israel – for its actions in Lebanon and Gaza, prompting critics to say the new body is just as politicised and ineffective as<\/p>\n

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