# Colonel Gadaffi to head United Nations Commission on Human Rights **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 19, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666 "2002-08-19T23:53:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/41 "2003-01-20T16:36:16Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by jjimm \* > They were interviewing the Libyan Ambassador to the UN this morning on the Beeb, and **he** singularly failed to answer the question “how do you square being head of an organization you don’t even let in your country?”_\* Wasn’t Najat al-Hajjaji a woman last time I checked? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![IzzyR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@IzzyR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IzzyR)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/42 "2003-01-20T16:37:05Z")
When I preview reply, TOF’s post is after DDG’s. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/43 "2003-01-20T17:40:23Z")
Kewl! The new UN HRC chair has ovaries instead of testicles! 😃 I didn’t know that. [http://www.un.org/womenwatch/un/who.htm](http://www.un.org/womenwatch/un/who.htm) > [@](#): > > Her Excellency Mrs. Najat Al-Hajjaji > > Permanent Mission of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ( 3 October 2000 ) [http://www.nfsl-libya.com/NewsComments/2011.htm](http://www.nfsl-libya.com/NewsComments/2011.htm) > [@](#): > > Ambassador Mrs. Najat Al-Hajjaji, Ambassador of Libya to the UN Offices in Geneva, > Route de Lausanne 319, > 1293 Bellevue, Geneva, > Switzerland ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/44 "2003-01-20T17:52:46Z")
Jjimm, they were interviewing Seif Al-Islam Al-Ghadaffi, the head of “Gaddafy International Foundation for Charitable Organisations”, an independent charitable foundation (according to them, anyway). If the spotlight of this appointment cajoles Libya and some surrounding nations into approving its Human rights records, then some good will come of the appointment. At the moment, it might be just a charm offensive. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/45 "2003-01-20T18:22:25Z")
Oh, well I got the wrong end of he stick, then. I didn’t think he was from an (alleged) NGO, though. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666/46 "2003-01-20T19:24:25Z")
Oh, and He’s the Conel’s son. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonel-gadaffi-to-head-united-nations-commission-on-human-rights/124666.md?page=2)