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Canada unveils UN resolution blasting Iran's rights record

"Canada deposited a draft resolution at the United Nations that implicitly criticizes the UN's array of human rights investigators, saying they need to get proactive about exposing human rights abuse in Iran."

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"The draft resolution calls on UN investigators of extra-judicial executions, torture, free speech suppression, persecution of human rights activists, arbitrary detention, and enforced disappearances to "pay particular attention" to Iran." (emphasis mine)

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"The text reflects past Canadian-led resolutions in identifying torture, flogging, amputations and stoning as "serious ongoing and recurring human-rights violations" in Iran." (emphasis mine)

Jeh Custer and the moral equivalence crowd can learn something here, but they won't, of course.

"The call for more UN investigator involvement comes amid criticism that many of the "special rapporteurs" spend a disproportionate amount of time probing alleged abuses in advanced democracies, while ignoring countries where the worst abuse takes place."

I'm thinking the Harper government would do this anyway, even if no Canadian had been kidnapped or murdered by that regime.

Keep. Going. Harper.