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US in Tough Contest for Human Rights Council Seat

James B. Hunter Human Rights Award Ceremony

James B. Hunter Human Rights Award Ceremony by cliff1066™
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The United States is competing with four Western countries for three seats on the Human Rights Council in the only contested election at the U.N.’s top human rights body. The 193-member General Assembly is scheduled to vote Monday for 18 members of the 47-member council. African, Asian, Eastern European and Latin American countries have put forward uncontested slates whose candidates are virtually certain of victory. Several human rights groups have criticized a number of these candidates as unqualified including Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Venezuela. The five Western nations competing for seats — the U.S., Germany, Greece, Ireland and Sweden — were all deemed qualified by the rights groups.

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Philippe Bolopion

Overall Sentiment: -0.370501

Relevance: 0.206282

Jose Luis Dias

Overall Sentiment: 0.489674

Relevance: 0.199292

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-0.0869957 U.N. representative, Jose Luis Dias, said member states “should return a blank ballot if they feel a candidate does not meet the high human rights standards expected of council members.”
0.0257425 Dias said, the organization has called on Ethiopia to instruct the security services to remove barriers to the work of human rights defenders and journalists and has highlighted Ivory Coast’s 2010 Supreme Court ruling upholding a husband’s right to “discipline his wife and children, provided that this left no visible marks.”
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  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0612532
  • Mean: -0.0306266
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Overall Sentiment: 0.248444

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Hillel Neuer

Overall Sentiment: 0.0723706

Relevance: 0.167394

Barack Obama

Overall Sentiment: 0.117244

Relevance: 0.163909

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George W. Bush

Overall Sentiment: -0.691656

Relevance: 0.154578

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Organization: Human Rights Council

Overall Sentiment: -0.0720831

Relevance: 0.843688

Organization: Human Rights Commission

Overall Sentiment: -0.517591

Relevance: 0.421138

Organization: Human Rights Watch

Overall Sentiment: 0.0800737

Relevance: 0.324048

Country: United States

Overall Sentiment: 0.290944

Relevance: 0.365176

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