聯合國將選舉人權理事會新成員 (UN to Elect New Members of Human Rights Panel)

聯合國大會準備選舉聯合國人權理事會的14個新成員國，人權團體表示關注。幾個人權團體敦促聯合國大會拒絕像埃及和白俄羅斯等國家的競選申請，原因是它們所說的這些國家長期違犯人權。

人權團體聯合國觀察和自由之家譴責這兩個國家以及安哥拉和卡塔爾等國政府是獨裁政權，在聯合國有關人權問題上的表決記錄是負面的。

聯合國人權理事會去年成立，以取代聲譽受損的包括一些聲名狼藉的踐踏人權國家的人權委員會。聯合國人權理事會的47個成員國來自世界五大地區，非洲、亞洲、東歐、拉丁美洲和加勒比海，以及西歐和其他國家。

Human rights groups are raising concerns as the United Nations General Assembly prepares to elect 14 new member states of the U.N. Human Rights Council. Several of the rights groups are urging the assembly to reject bids from such nations as Egypt and Belarus, for what they say is their long record of human rights violations.

U.N. Watch and Freedom House have denounced the two countries, as well as Angola and Qatar, as "authoritarian regimes with negative U.N. voting records" on human rights issues.

The Human Rights Council was created last year to replace the discredited Human Rights Commission, which had included notorious human rights abusers among its members. Membership on the 47-seat council is broken down among five of the world's regions -- Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin American and Caribbean, and the Western European and Other States.