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Colombo told to reassess rights policy
The election for 15 seats on the 47-member council, whose performance has also come under attack, was the subject of intense lobbying.
- AP
- Published: 00:19 May 23, 2008
Colombo: An international rights group yesterday urged Sri Lanka's government to reassess its human rights policies after the war-torn island nation lost its re-election bid for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council.
New York-based Human Rights Watch in a statement called the vote "a wake-up call for the Sri Lankan government" and said the country had only itself to blame for not getting re-elected to the UN's most important human rights body.
Sri Lanka, which has been strongly criticised for its human rights record, lost its bid for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday, but some other countries with not-so-good rights records won seats, such as Pakistan, Gabon and Zambia.
The election for 15 seats on the 47-member council, whose performance has also come under attack, was the subject of intense lobbying.
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