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dcterms:Date	"2011-03-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:16th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva, 28 February - 25 March 2011) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110309.23.3-550-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-03-09-Speech-3-551-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Charles Tannock2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, the fact that Libya was a member of the UN Human Rights Council tells us everything we need to know about this discredited and politicised organisation. Gaddafi’s 42-year rule has systematically crushed any vestige of human rights in his country and we have now seen the consequences of the culture of violence on which his reign-of-terror regime was based. However, it would be unfair to single out just Libya. Other human rights abusers also enjoy membership of the Council, including China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Uganda, where homosexuals are persecuted. Bizarrely, it was even mooted that Iran should head up the Women’s Equality Commission at one stage. The UNHRC also spends much of its time vilifying our democratic ally, Israel. However, I suppose, on reflection, that this Council is all that there is on human rights at UN level, so we will have to engage, albeit fully cognisant of the inherent contradictions of having brutal non-democratic regimes as members of the UN Human Rights Council."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Charles Tannock (ECR )."1
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