http://freekorea.us/2008/02/28/louise-arbour-an-exceptionally-ineffective-un-bureaucrat-to-step-down-as-high-commissioner-for-human-rights/ Tue, 22 May 2012 21:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://freekorea.us/2008/02/28/louise-arbour-an-exceptionally-ineffective-un-bureaucrat-to-step-down-as-high-commissioner-for-human-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-56548 A Second Hand Conjecture » Vindication, if Hollow Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:24:10 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2008/02/28/louise-arbour-an-exceptionally-ineffective-un-bureaucrat-to-step-down-as-high-commissioner-for-human-rights/#comment-56548 [...] No matter what a certain director at a certain think tank-slash-NGO may think, it appears I am not the only one who thought Louise Arbour was a particularly incompetent advocate for human rights: On her watch, the UN has ended human rights monitoring in Cuba and Belarus and has failed to hold the Chinese regime accountable for its gross human rights violations. In fact, in January of this year, Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted her as lauding Beijing’s commitment to human rights. [...] [...] No matter what a certain director at a certain think tank-slash-NGO may think, it appears I am not the only one who thought Louise Arbour was a particularly incompetent advocate for human rights: On her watch, the UN has ended human rights monitoring in Cuba and Belarus and has failed to hold the Chinese regime accountable for its gross human rights violations. In fact, in January of this year, Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted her as lauding Beijing’s commitment to human rights. [...]

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