EyeontheUN: UN Human Rights Council Election Results

From an email:

For Immediate Release: May 15, 2009 Contact: Anne Bayefsky info@EYEontheUN.org

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UN Human Rights Council Election Results

• Number of fully free countries on the UN's lead human rights body
  
  -> less than 50%
  
  
• Balance of power on the UN Human Rights Council
  
  -> Organization of the Islamic Conference
  
  (Islamic states elected enough states to form a majority of both the African and Asian regional groups; the African and Asian regional groups together hold a majority of seats on the Council)
  
  
• Number of votes obtained by the United States as compared to the number of votes for Kyrgyzstan: 167 U.S. vs. 174 Kyrgyzstan
  
  
• Number of votes for the three slots reserved for Western states, with only three Western states running (i.e. a fixed slate):
  
  -> Norway - 179
  
  -> Belgium - 177
  
  -> United States - 167 (the least number of votes)

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