Hypocrasy alert-As Iran's bid to join rights body fails, U.S. claims victory http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/04/23/as_irans_bid_to_join_rights_body_fails_us_claims_victory

"Our key goal is to strengthen credibility and effectiveness of the human rights council; and that hinges on membership," added Suzanne Nossel, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international organizations. She welcomed the spectacle of seeing Iran "mount a bid to see it falter.''

"Iran saw the writing on the wall," said Peggy Hicks of the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch. "It was mounting global opposition that drove them out of the race and their appalling human rights record made it impossible for them to mount a successful campaign."

comment-first of all US government is the biggest human rights violator in modern history,secondly lets see who these shills cited and quoted above are...

Suzanne Nossel is a senior fellow at the Security and Peace Institute, a joint initiative of the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation, and a founder of the democracyarsenal.org weblog. http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Nossel_Suzanne_15114706.aspx    (Center for American Progress- http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_American_Progress  

In 2009 CAP's Progressive Media project emerged as a major communications war room on behalf of Obama's domestic and foreign policy agenda and CAP became a strong advocate for escalation in Afghanistan/In March, 2009 CAP strongly supported Barack Obama's escalation of the US wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, issuing a report titled Sustainable Security in Afghanistan by Lawrence J. Korb, Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman and Sean Duggan)

(Century Foundation-The Century Foundation also has supported two task forces that examined homeland security issues after the events of September 11, 2001. The first, chaired by Richard Clarke, produced a report, Defeating the Jihadists: A Blueprint for Action, in 2005. The report assessed the nation’s successes and failures on homeland security and, building on the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, offered a detailed action plan for neutralizing the international movement at the core of worldwide terrorism)

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Peggy Hicks  Global Advocacy Director Human Rights Watch(Human Rights Watch, a US-based group claiming to be a non-governmental organization, but which is in fact funded by government-linked quasi-private foundations and a Congressional funded political propaganda organization, the National Endowment for Democracy, has issued a report “A Decade Under Chavez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela” (9/21/2008 hrw.org).

118 scholars from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, México, the United States, the U.K., Venezuela, and other countries publicly criticized HRW for a perceived bias against the government of Venezuela. The open letter criticized the report by stating that it "does not meet even the most minimal standards of scholarship, impartiality, accuracy, or credibility.Human Rights Watch in Venezuela: Lies, Crimes and Cover-ups http://lahaine.org/petras/articulo.php?p=1755&more=1&c=1    Hoge Named Human Rights Watch Chairman http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=81318&catid=38

Human Rights Watch said Sunday it picked Foreign Affairs magazine editor James F. Hoge Jr. to be the fourth chairman in the group's 32-year history. Since 1922, the Council on Foreign Relations has published Foreign Affairs, "America's most influential publication on international affairs and foreign policy http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foreign_Affairs  Human Rights Watch Scores U.S. 'Hypocrisy' on 'War on Terrorism http://www.zmag.org/content/TerrorWar/lobehrwterror.cfm  

Protecting Palestinian females: HRW misses the mark http://justworldnews.org/archives/002213.html   "How Human Rights Watch Lost Its Way in Lebanon: The Israel Lobby Works Its Magic, Again http://www.counterpunch.org/cook09072006.html