Thursday 13 December 2007

Louise Arbour Praises Rwanda's Abolition of Death Penalty in Speech to Human Rights Council

Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has lauded the abolition of the death penalty in Rwanda. Along with Gabon, which also recently decided to ban the practice, Rwanda joins 'the vast majority of UN Member States that have already done so', she said. See: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=25015&Cr=rights&Cr1=council. For her full speech to the Human Rights Council, see: http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/6BA53A3EA846442BC12573B0004F8D5D?opendocument
Thanks to Maria Varaki for drawing this to my attention

2 comments:

simon williams said...

For more information on Louise Arbour and Rwanda please see:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/
041708D.shtml

http://www.globalresearch.ca/
articles/MAS109A.html

http://www.swans.com/library/art11/
mickc01.html

simon williams said...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041708D.shtml

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articlesMAS109A.html

http://www.swans.com/library/art11/mickc01.html