Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Chavez running for seat on top UN rights body at View from Geneva

Chavez running for seat on top UN rights body at View from Geneva: "The governments of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Pakistan are slated to run unopposed for seats on the UN’s 47-nation Human Rights Council this year, reported the independent monitoring group UN Watch, citing sources close to the UN.

“It’s an outrage,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch, who announced the formation of an international coalition of parliamentarians and human rights groups to block both candidacies, “due to their poor records on human rights protection at home and on human rights promotion at the UN.”"

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Sun-tzu Quotes - The Quotations Page

Sun-tzu Quotes - The Quotations Page: "Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Emptiness and Fullness
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting."

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