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US, Israel, Saudi Arabia must be removed from UNHCR

Rasa - The UN Human Rights Council needs more authority to stand against human rights violations by the United States and its allies in the Middle East, says Massoud Shadjareh, head of the Islamic Human Rights Commission from London.

News ID: 427788

Date: 01 March 2017 - 23:56

RNA - Since the United States, the Israeli regime and Saudi Arabia are violating human rights codes, “they should be removed [from international human rights body] for their abuses,” Shadjareh told Press TV on Wednesday.

The US has killed millions of people around the world, Israel is massacring Palestinians on a daily basis and Saudi Arabia is bombing Yemeni children; so, the human rights issue has turned into a “political tool” in the hands of the Western powers and their allies to pursue their interests, he noted.

The analyst went on to say that the Western powers and their regional allies abuse other nations and “get away with impunity;” so, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) needs “to have more teeth, more independence and more authority.”

“That could only happen if they have got the political will to address the issues that are around. These issues include the situation of occupation in Palestine, Kashmir, Myanmar, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria and elsewhere,” he added.

The United States has threatened to leave the UNHCR if the council continues to focus on Israel. The Trump administration is angry with a December resolution of the United Nations Security Council, which demanded the Tel Aviv regime to end illegal settlement activities in the occupied lands of Palestine.

“The worst [regime] has been occupying power of Israel in Palestinian land,” and “that will not happen without the support of the United States, Britain and the West, which are using their veto” power to halt any international move against the Israeli regime, Shadjareh concluded.

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