Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, seen here with his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad in Damascus in 2009, has been elected to an influential U.N. body, getting more votes than the United States. The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday elected Sudan – whose president is accused of war crimes -- to an influential body whose powers include choosing members for agencies dealing with women and children, and accrediting civil society groups wanting to participate in sessions of the U.N. Human Rights Council. The Islamist regime in Khartoum received more votes than the United States did in the election for 18 new members of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the U.N. body that coordinates socio-economic and related affairs.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has been wanted by the International Criminal Court since early 2009 on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, arising from the conflict in Darfur. Genocide charges were added in 2010. To Read More….
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