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The United Nations was founded lo promote peace, prosperity and human rights. It is doing some what better on the first two coun
The United Nations was founded lo promote peace, prosperity and human rights. It is doing some what better on the first two coun
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2010-07-19
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The United Nations was founded lo promote peace, prosperity and human rights. It is doing some what better on the first two counts than its critics sometimes make out. The last, however, has been such a failure that it is threatening to bring the whole edifice down. Once revered as the creator of all the great universal human-rights rules and instruments, the 53-member Commission on Human Rights has been thoroughly discredited. If it cannot be fixed it needs to be scrapped. In its present form it serves only to make a mockery of the cause.
The reason for this is simple enough. The present committee is packed with members who are themselves serial abusers of human rights. Kofi Annan. the UN Secretary-General, admits that their main purpose in being on the committee is not to strengthen human rights but to protect themselves from criticism. At present, these members include exemplars of virtue such as Zimbabwe, Sudan, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Nepal and Russia--a veritable roll call of the worst offenders.
A plan of sorts exists to reform this mess. Mr. Annan called for the replacement of the commission, which at present meets for just six weeks once a year, by a leaner, tougher, year-round Human Rights Council, which would be ready to act whenever serious abuse was discovered, and whose members should have a solid record on human rights. America and the other leading democracies backed the idea. The serial abusers did not. In the wrangling at a summit on wider UN reforms, Mr. Annan’s baby was reduced to a skeleton. Many wondered whether it could survive.
Amazingly, it has just. There is now agreement on the need for a new body, on a par with the Security Council, that would meet several times a year including, when necessary, for emergencies. But its size, powers and composition are still up for grabs. The Americans want no more than 30 members, all with solid human-rights credentials, elected by a two-thirds majority of the General Assembly, along with a routine review of human rights in all 191 UN member states. The abusers want as big a body as possible, elected by a simple majority, as at present, with no membership criteria, and no automatic peer review.
Any reform must not just shrink the commission, but must also change the way in which members are elected. At present, regions usually put forward a slate of candidates corresponding to their allotted number of seats, which the General Assembly votes on to the commission as a block. Under one sensible proposal, regions would be required to put forward more contestants than their quota. Each candidate country would then stand separately for election by the General Assembly. Early peer review of all members would further reduce the temptation for thugs to try to get seats. But opposition is fierce, not only from the most notorious offenders, but also from those middle-ranking ones who fear their relatively minor abuses would be put under the spotlight.
Timing is tight. The old, unreformed commission is due to hold its next annual meeting. Mr. Annan wants a new one to be ready to take over by then. That means reaching agreement on a blueprint within the next few weeks. If agreement is stymied, the next best solution will be to wind the existing commission up altogether. Human rights matter too much for the UN to continue to shunt the subject off to a cynical talking shop that has become home to the worst violators. That just blackens the overall reputation of the UN.
It can be inferred from the fourth paragraph that ______.
选项
A、Human Rights Council is expected to imitate Security Council.
B、there is compromise on powers of Human Rights Council.
C、some countries want to maximize their chance of getting a seat.
D、some details concerning membership responsibility are up in the air.
答案
C
解析
推断题。第四段末句指出一些人权状况受到质疑的国家want as big a body as possible, elected by a simple majority,可以推断其目的是为了增加自己在人权委员会获得席位的机会。[C]符合文意,故为答案。第二句提到新的人权委员会在某方面与安全委员会一致,但并没有指出要模仿安全委员会,排除[A]。第三句指出新委员会的规模、权利、组成等还有待商榷,[D]不符合文意。[D]中membership responsibility未提及,排除。
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