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In a big meeting hall in Geneva earlier this week, China’s human rights record came under scrutiny before the U.N. Human Rights Council. You can watch the video of the three-hour session if you like by clicking to this site.... ...full story at Tim Johnson

from Tim Johnson on Wed, Feb 11 2009

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08 Feb 09		UN Human Rights Council meets on China » RConversation The UN Human Rights Council is offering a live webcast of its review of Chinese human rights at 9am Monday morning Geneva time. That's 4pm in Beijing, or 3am on the U.S. East Coast. I probably won't manage to be...
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