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英语课

By Lisa Schlein
Geneva
17 September 2006

Human-rights organizations are calling for the U.N. Human Rights Council to protect the victims of abuse by naming and shaming those countries that violate their rights. On the eve of its second session, rights advocates are urging the Council's 47 members not to turn a blind eye to the world's most serious human-rights crises. 


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Unlike the first meeting in June, this one will get right down to business. There will be no high-level segment, no dignitaries expressing their views and hopes for this newborn organization.






Luis Alfonso de Alba
 
 


 
 
 



Mexican Ambassador and council president, Luis Alfonso de Alba, says the U.N. Special investigators 1 will present the reports they had prepared for the now defunct 2 Human Rights Commission. A first set of reports will deal with so-called thematic issues.


"Question of torture, children, rights of women. The need to protect human rights in the fight against terrorism, indigenous 3 rights, etc. Those reports include specific recommendations on things that need to be done. A second set of reports refer to specific country situations," he said.


This will include the human-rights records of countries such as Somalia, North Korea, Cuba, Haiti, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Sudan. Reports on the U.S.-run detention 4 center for terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay and on the situation in Lebanon also will be presented.


An international coalition 5 of 41 non-governmental organizations has issued a statement criticizing the council for failing to uphold democratic values. It accuses the U.N. body of the kind of politicization that stripped the U.N. Human Rights Commission of its moral authority.


The executive director of the rights group U.N. Watch, Hillel Neuer, says he welcomes the investigators' reports, but adds reports are not enough.


"I am actually not aware of a single country that is preparing to introduce any resolution for Darfur or the victims of any other violation," he noted 6. "Now that is deeply disappointing. We need resolutions that single out violations 7 in countries like North Korea, Burma, Cuba, China, Saudi Arabia, etc. The message that has gone out to the world is that the first three months of the council, not a single country is being addressed except for the anti-Israel resolutions."


Neuer is referring to two special sessions held by the council that concerned Israel's attack on Gaza and the invasion of Lebanon. Ambassador de Alba calls the special sessions fully 8 justified 9 because they dealt with critical human-rights issues.


"I think the Council should fight selectivity. But, selectivity does not mean not to address an issue. It means to address any relevant issue," he continued. "The criticism that has come with stronger voices in terms of the balance that the resolutions need to have."


Some governments and rights groups criticize these resolutions as being entirely 10 one-sided. They say Israel is politically condemned 11, but no mention is made of provocative 12 actions committed by either the Palestinians or Hezbollah militia 13.



n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.死亡的;已倒闭的
  • The scheme for building an airport seems to be completely defunct now.建造新机场的计划看来整个完蛋了。
  • This schema object is defunct.No modifications are allowed until it is made active again.此架构对象不起作用。在重新激活之前,不能进行任何改动。
adj.土产的,土生土长的,本地的
  • Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
  • Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
违反( violation的名词复数 ); 冒犯; 违反(行为、事例); 强奸
  • This is one of the commonest traffic violations. 这是常见的违反交通规则之例。
  • These violations of the code must cease forthwith. 这些违犯法规的行为必须立即停止。
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
a.正当的,有理的
  • She felt fully justified in asking for her money back. 她认为有充分的理由要求退款。
  • The prisoner has certainly justified his claims by his actions. 那个囚犯确实已用自己的行动表明他的要求是正当的。
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
adj.挑衅的,煽动的,刺激的,挑逗的
  • She wore a very provocative dress.她穿了一件非常性感的裙子。
  • His provocative words only fueled the argument further.他的挑衅性讲话只能使争论进一步激化。
n.民兵,民兵组织
  • First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面,其次是民兵。
  • There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
学英语单词
adel
Adishchevo
ammonia lyase
asrequired
aventurization
billet-douxes
British Parliament
ce (conductivity element)
cephalomenia
Chaput's operation
chemical reaction flow
cobalticyanic acid
cochliobolus stenospilus(carpenter) matsum et yaman.
crystalline inhomogeneity
crystalline semiconduting compound
Dakoro
damita
Diallvltoxiferine
distribution mix
distribution pigtail of optical fiber
drop-dead date
dynamic advertising
Ealing Studios
effective-length of weld
eugranitic
evaporation curve
fibrous tendon sheath
first-term
fishroom
Florsheim shoes
fogmarking
four ply cloth
fresnel-huygens principle
harness clip
Hirvaskangas
ibm 5550 code
incity
inscribed figure
intrablock estimates
Kamelik
Leinster House
leprosest
Lilium superbum
line access unit
main storage requirement
Marienfeld
masticability
menthane
multiplicand word
najmas
newspaper stand
nodular graphite iron
offence of harbouring the stolen goods and contrabands
on-call repairing
out of patience with
parapharynx
parcel shipment
passion drive
Payr's ethods
pheromonostatin
phytogenic succession
pinion
ploghe
polyparia
powdered compact
prefixhood
pressure fluctuation test
pseudosematic color
quadrifasciatuss
quercic acid
quirkier
raking machine
realism
reciprocating-apparatus
resveratrol
Royal Engineers
school newspaper
seeker azimuth orientation
sex therapists
signalling condenser
slam the door in someone's face
sluice line
smectic crystal
speechlike
taxes levied for other governmental unit
temporises
tepary
the mummy
thyristor rectifier cubicle
traction motor blower
tuned grid circuit
unblistered
university-tuition
unprepossessingness
unshifty
user I/O device
utero-abdominal pouch
vasculit
videocarrier
wire rope sling
Yeniseyskaya Ravnina
young offender institution