Pakistan loses UN human rights council election

Pakistan broke down to bring back to the elite UN human rights body, picking up only just 105 votes in the 193-member General Assembly. Moreover, Its current term is set to expire on December 31 and was probing redeem to the 47- member Human Rights council(United Nations). India is also a member of the Council and its term will end in 2017.

• New members who will call up their 3-year term(from January 1,2016) are Belgium, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Georgia, Germany, Kenya, Panama, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Togo, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.

Greater part of the members of the General Assembly elected the member of the council directly and exclusively by private poll. A non-governmental human rights group UN Watch(Geneva) taken in the setback of Pakistan, tagged it as a “major surprise.”

Reason:

 Before the polling, many human rights bodies were at cross purposes for the re-election of Pakistan, UAE and Venezuela to the council because these governments are criticised globally for their extreme human rights violations.

• As per report by UN Watch Human Rights Foundations, and the Lantos Foundation,Pakistan, UAE, Burundi and Ecuador were recited by human rights groups for having committed distressing violations of many articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes curbs on the freedoms of speech, press, religion, and assembly, along with disregard for fundamental due process.
• Moreover, the voted against UN resolutions taking action for victims of human rights abuses in many despots.

Key points :

• President,UN Human Rights Council: Joachim Rücker
• President Pakistan: Mamnoon Hussain
• PM Pakistan: Nawaz Sharif