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Human Rights Annual Report 2005

This is perhaps one of the most important aspects of the whole report. There were a number of weaknesses with the old commission. One was that positions had to be met largely by consensus—the hon. Gentleman has already mentioned some of the members with poor human rights who were on that body—but perhaps one of the most difficult paradoxes with the old system was the conflict between naming and shaming on one hand and not interfering with a country’s sovereign rights on the other. Did the Committee look into that and did it come to any conclusion?