聯(lián)合國(guó)將選舉人權(quán)理事會(huì)新成員 (UN to Elect New Members of Human Rights Panel)

聯(lián)合國(guó)大會(huì)準(zhǔn)備選舉聯(lián)合國(guó)人權(quán)理事會(huì)的14個(gè)新成員國(guó)，人權(quán)團(tuán)體表示關(guān)注。幾個(gè)人權(quán)團(tuán)體敦促聯(lián)合國(guó)大會(huì)拒絕像埃及和白俄羅斯等國(guó)家的競(jìng)選申請(qǐng)，原因是它們所說(shuō)的這些國(guó)家長(zhǎng)期違犯人權(quán)。

人權(quán)團(tuán)體聯(lián)合國(guó)觀察和自由之家譴責(zé)這兩個(gè)國(guó)家以及安哥拉和卡塔爾等國(guó)政府是獨(dú)裁政權(quán)，在聯(lián)合國(guó)有關(guān)人權(quán)問(wèn)題上的表決記錄是負(fù)面的。

聯(lián)合國(guó)人權(quán)理事會(huì)去年成立，以取代聲譽(yù)受損的包括一些聲名狼藉的踐踏人權(quán)國(guó)家的人權(quán)委員會(huì)。聯(lián)合國(guó)人權(quán)理事會(huì)的47個(gè)成員國(guó)來(lái)自世界五大地區(qū)，非洲、亞洲、東歐、拉丁美洲和加勒比海，以及西歐和其他國(guó)家。

Human rights groups are raising concerns as the United Nations General Assembly prepares to elect 14 new member states of the U.N. Human Rights Council. Several of the rights groups are urging the assembly to reject bids from such nations as Egypt and Belarus, for what they say is their long record of human rights violations.

U.N. Watch and Freedom House have denounced the two countries, as well as Angola and Qatar, as "authoritarian regimes with negative U.N. voting records" on human rights issues.

The Human Rights Council was created last year to replace the discredited Human Rights Commission, which had included notorious human rights abusers among its members. Membership on the 47-seat council is broken down among five of the world's regions -- Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin American and Caribbean, and the Western European and Other States.