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Rights mandate for Afghanistan to end: U.N. envoy says U.S. seeks to stifle inquiries into abuses.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 13-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Rights mandate for Afghanistan to end: U.N. envoy says U.S. seeks to stifle inquiries into abuses.(WORLD)

Article Excerpt
Cherif Bassiouni, the outgoing U.N. human rights investigator in Afghanistan, said U.S. efforts to do away with his position are a transparent attempt to restrict U.N. oversight of human rights conditions and may be related to a secret transfer of Afghan and al-Qaeda detainees from Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba to Afghanistan.

Within days of hearing a report that offered a devastating portrait of human rights conditions in Afghanistan--including allegations that U.S. military, CIA operatives, or surrogates working for both may have been involved in abuses of detainees in their custody--the 53-member board of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) voted in April in Geneva not to extend the mandate for a special U.N. human rights investigator in Afghanistan. The decision came after what has been described as intense lobbying by U.S. officials to end the mandate.

According to media reports, U.S. representatives to the commission argued human rights conditions in Afghanistan had improved so markedly since the 2001 overthrow of the...

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