The Un Human Rights Council Membership, 2008-2009

THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP (2008-2009) Summary: 24 out of 47 UNHRC members (51%) fall short of basic democracy standards, with ratings of either Partly Free or Not Free. 32 out of 47 UNHRC (68%) members have a negative voting record on UN resolutions that promote human rights. Country Angola Argentina Azerbaijan

Freedom Rating Not Free Free Not Free

Human Rights Voting Record Negative Positive Negative

Bahrain Bangladesh Bolivia Bosnia Brazil Burkina Faso Cameroon Canada Chile China Cuba Djibouti Egypt France Gabon Germany Ghana India

Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Free Partly Free Not Free Free Free Not Free Not Free Partly Free Not Free Free Partly Free Free Free Free

Negative Negative Negative Positive Negative Mixed* Negative Positive Positive* Negative Negative Negative Negative Positive Negative Positive Negative Negative

Indonesia Italy Japan Jordan Madagascar Malaysia Mauritius Mexico Netherlands Nicaragua Nigeria Pakistan Philippines

Free Free Free Partly Free Partly Free Partly Free Free Free Free Partly Free Partly Free Not Free Partly Free

Negative Positive Positive Negative Negative Negative Negative Negative Positive Negative Negative Negative Negative

Affiliations NAM None OIC, NAM (observer) OIC, Arab, NAM OIC, NAM NAM OIC (observer) NAM (observer) NAM OIC, NAM JUSCANZ NAM NAM (observer) NAM OIC, Arab, NAM OIC, Arab, NAM EU OIC, NAM EU NAM NAM, Arab (observer) OIC, NAM EU JUSCANZ OIC, Arab, NAM NAM OIC, NAM NAM NAM (observer) EU NAM NAM OIC, NAM NAM

Regional Group Africa GRULAC EE Asia Asia GRULAC EE GRULAC Africa Africa WEOG GRULAC Asia GRULAC Africa Africa WEOG Africa WEOG Africa Asia Asia WEOG Asia Asia Africa Asia Africa GRULAC WEOG GRULAC Africa Asia Asia

Qatar Rep. of Korea Russia Saudi Arabia Senegal Slovakia Slovenia South Africa Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom Uruguay Zambia

Not Free Free Not Free Not Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free

Negative Positive Negative Negative Negative Positive* Positive Negative Positive Positive Positive

OIC, Arab, NAM None OIC (observer) OIC, Arab, NAM OIC, NAM EU EU NAM JUSCANZ NAM (observer) EU

Asia Asia EE Asia Africa EE EE Africa WEOG EE WEOG

Free Partly Free

Negative Negative

NAM (observer) NAM

GRULAC Africa

Methodology Voting records taken from data from the latest UN Watch and Freedom House evaluations: http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1330819&ct=53 60729 * An asterisk indicates new Human Rights Council members, whose voting records were determined based on their 2006 and 2007 votes on human rights resolutions at the UN General Assembly, as measured by the Democracy Coalition Project. Freedom rating taken from 2008 Freedom in the World Survey by Freedom House.

Key Arab: Arab League EU: European Union G77: Group of 77 (developing nations) Juscanz: Japan-US-Canada-Australia-New Zealand LMG: Like-Minded Group NAM: Non-Aligned Movement OIC: Organization of the Islamic Conference