{"id":186,"date":"2012-11-13T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=186"},"modified":"2012-11-13T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T06:00:34","slug":"un-hrc-members-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2012\/11\/un-hrc-members-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The New UN&#8217;s Human Rights Council Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2012\/11\/HRC.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-189\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2012\/11\/HRC.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2012\/11\/HRC.png 200w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2012\/11\/HRC-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>So, the United Nations General Assembly just voted for the <a title=\"US re-elected to UN Human Rights Council seat  Read more: http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/news\/us\/article\/US-re-elected-to-UN-Human-Rights-Council-seat-4028562.php#ixzz2C4xdbkAa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/news\/us\/article\/US-reelected-to-UN-Human-Rights-Council-seat-4028562.php\">new members of the Human Rights Council<\/a>. You wanna know which countries did it, besides the US, Germany and Ireland?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, sure, let&#8217;s take a look:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>African, Asian, Eastern European and Latin American countries put forward uncontested slates, meaning candidates were virtually certain of winning one of the 18 open seats up for grabs in this year&#8217;s election on the 47-member council.<\/p>\n<p>Several human rights groups have criticized a number of the candidates as unqualified, including Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Also elected Monday were Argentina, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Montenegro, Pakistan, South Korea, Sierra Leone and the United Arab Emirates. They begin three-year terms on Jan. 1, 2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ohh, great! What now? Saudi Arabia in charge of women&#8217;s rights?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of advise these guys might want to take into account the following election: the HRC members should be first world countries only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the United Nations General Assembly just voted for the new members of the Human Rights Council. You wanna know&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,92],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-human-rights","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}