Human Rights Council

Geneva: Human rights defenders write open letter to the United Nations Human Rights Councilposted on: 2009/06/15

35 human rights organisations have published an open letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council, which was signed onto by human rights organisations from throughout the world. In the letter, they warned that recent “extraordinary attacks” by states on United Nations human rights experts at the Human Rights Council was “severely eroding the Council’s legitimacy and credibility.”