Colonel Gadaffi to head United Nations Commission on Human Rights

[JDeMobray]

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:

[IzzyR]

When I preview reply, TOF’s post is after DDG’s.

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

Kewl! The new UN HRC chair has ovaries instead of testicles! I didn’t know that.

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

Ambassador Mrs. Najat Al-Hajjaji, Ambassador of Libya to the UN Offices in Geneva,
Route de Lausanne 319,
1293 Bellevue, Geneva,
Switzerland

[TwistofFate]

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.

[jjimm]

Oh, well I got the wrong end of he stick, then. I didn’t think he was from an (alleged) NGO, though.

[TwistofFate]

Oh, and He’s the Conel’s son.