{"id":1892,"date":"2011-06-15T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2011-06-15T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:24:08","slug":"kuwait-shames-un-human-rights-seat-as-it-becomes-gcc-twitter-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait shames UN Human Rights seat as it becomes GCC Twitter Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1887\">see it here Kuwait self appointed GCC Twitter Police<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kuwait wins UN rights seat after Syria withdraws<br \/>\nAFP<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait wins UN rights seat after Syria withdraws AFP\/File \u2013 A general view shows the assembly hall during the opening of the 16th session of the United Nations Human \u2026<br \/>\n\u2013 Fri May 20, 2:09 pm ET<\/p>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS (AFP) \u2013 Kuwait secured a seat Friday on the UN Human Rights Council after Syria&#8217;s withdrawal following international pressure over its crackdown on opposition protests.<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups quickly turned their attention to Kuwait&#8217;s record and said it must improve.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait was among 15 new nations to secure seats on the Geneva-based Human Rights Council following a vote at the UN General Assembly. The others include India, Indonesia, Philippines for Asia, along with Italy and Austria from Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Syria withdrew from the race for a seat last week after coming under intense international pressure. But it has indicated plans to run for a seat again in 2013. Syria had been planned to be part of an agreed Asian slate of candidates for four available seats.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20110520\/wl_mideast_afp\/unrightscouncil_20110520180924\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D1892&amp;text=Kuwait+shames+UN+Human+Rights+seat+as+it+becomes+GCC+Twitter+Police&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>see it here Kuwait self appointed GCC Twitter Police Kuwait wins UN rights seat after Syria withdraws AFP Kuwait wins UN rights seat after Syria withdraws AFP\/File \u2013 A general view shows the assembly hall during the opening of the 16th session of the United Nations Human \u2026 \u2013 Fri May 20, 2:09 pm ET <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1892#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1264,1263],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}