Seoul elected to UN human rights body

South Korea was elected to the first UN Human Rights Council, which is replacing the oft-criticized Human Rights Commission. Of course, there are doubts whether the new body will be any better than the old one (see also here).

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on May 10, 2006 at 10:13 am, filed under South Korea. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Iceberg your flag
    Posted May 10, 2006 at 10:24 am | Permalink

    Hmm. I wonder if N. Korea will be at the top of their agenda.

  2. snow your flag
    Posted May 10, 2006 at 6:45 pm | Permalink

    If Seoul has any say in the matter, North Korea will not be on the agenda.

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