人权组织严厉批评联合国首要人权机构15名成员的无竞争选举，称此举导致人权记录不佳的国家赢得席位。
Human rights groups are sharply criticizing the uncontested election of 15 members of the United Nations' premier human rights body, saying it resulted in countries with poor rights records winning seats.
埃迪斯·M·莱德勒 联合国 — — 人权组织周二严厉批评联合国首要人权机构15名成员的无竞争选举，称此举导致人权记录不佳的国家赢得席位。
EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS — Human rights groups sharply criticized Tuesday’s uncontested election of 15 members of the United Nations’ premier human rights body, saying it resulted in countries with poor rights records winning seats.
47个国家的人权理事会席位按照联合国地区小组分配，以确保地域代表性。而且连续第二年，所有地区小组提交的候选人数量正好等于可供竞选的三年任期席位数。这意味着在193个成员国组成的大会周二的选举中，没有出现竞争性角逐。
Positions on the 47-nation Human Rights Council are allocated to the U.N.’s regional groups to ensure geographical representation. And for the second year in a row, all regional groups put forward the exact number of candidates for available seats for the three-year term. This meant that in Tuesday’s election in the 193-member General Assembly there were no competitive races.
“这种无竞争的投票对‘选举’一词是一种嘲弄，”人权观察组织联合国主任路易·夏博诺说。“没有人应该银盘托着就得到这个关键机构的席位。”
“This uncompetitive vote makes a mockery of the word ‘election,’” said Louis Charbonneau, U.N. director at Human Rights Watch. “No one should have a seat on this crucial body handed to them on a silver platter.”
他呼吁联合国成员国“坚持竞争性名单，以便他们能够否决人权记录不佳的候选人。”周二的投票中，非洲小组的赞比亚、加纳、尼日利亚和布隆迪当选。亚太小组的科威特、尼泊尔、约旦和日本赢得席位。拉美和加勒比小组的巴西、多米尼加共和国和乌拉圭也当选。主要由西方国家组成的小组的爱尔兰和德国以及中东欧小组的摩尔多瓦和乌克兰也将加入人权理事会。
He called on U.N. member nations to “insist on competitive slates so they can reject candidates with poor human rights records.”In Tuesday’s vote, the Africa group’s Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Burundi were elected. The Asia-Pacific group’s Kuwait, Nepal, Jordan and Japan won seats. So did the Latin America and Caribbean group’s Brazil, Dominican Republic and Uruguay. The mainly Western group’s Ireland and Germany and the Central and East European group’s Moldova and Ukraine will also join the Human Rights Council.
这个总部设在日内瓦的理事会定期审查所有国家的人权记录，任命独立调查员就酷刑等问题以及朝鲜、伊朗和缅甸等国家的情况进行报告，并派遣事实调查团去调查权利侵犯行为。这些包括乌克兰、巴勒斯坦领土和以色列以及苏丹 — — 目前都陷入冲突之中。
The Geneva-based council reviews the human rights records of all countries periodically, appoints independent investigators to report on issues such as torture and situations in countries such as North Korea, Iran and Myanmar, and sends fact-finding missions to investigate rights violations. These include in Ukraine, the Palestinian territories and Israel and Sudan — all currently engulfed in conflict.
人权理事会于2006年成立，旨在取代因部分成员人权记录不佳而失去信誉的人权委员会。但新成立的理事会很快也面临类似批评，包括一些国家为保护自己及其盟友而争夺席位。
The council was created in 2006 to replace a human rights commission that was discredited because of some members’ poor rights records. But the new council soon came to face similar criticism, including that countries sought seats to protect themselves and their allies.
特朗普总统在开始第二个任期不久后宣布，美国将退出人权理事会，他也在第一个任期内曾将美国退出该理事会，理由是该理事会对以色列存在偏见。
Soon after starting his second term, President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Human Rights Council, He also pulled the U.S. out in his first term. accusing it of anti-Israel bias.
在对周二投票的批评中，人权观察组织指出，非洲中部国家布隆迪存在“侵犯人权的状况”。该组织表示，尽管布隆迪政府作出了一些积极表态，但“布隆迪尚未开展有意义的改革，以解决与治理、司法或问责相关的长期关切”。它还表示，尼日利亚应确保在与武装组织博科圣地冲突期间，所有方——包括安全部队——对所犯下的严重罪行承担责任。巴西需要“调查并遏制警察滥用行为”，因为去年执法人员造成超过6500人死亡——其中绝大多数为黑人——它如此表示。
In its criticism of Tuesday’s vote, Human Rights Watch singled out the “abusive human rights conditions” in the central African nation of Burundi. It said that despite some positive government statements, “Burundi has not carried out meaningful reform to address longstanding concerns related to governance, justice or accountability.”It also said Nigeria should ensure accountability for serious crimes committed during the conflict with the armed group Boko Haram by all parties, including security forces. Brazil needs to “investigate and curb police abuse” after last year’s killing of more than 6,500 people — the vast majority of them Black — by law enforcement officers, it said.
尽管乌克兰遭受了“俄罗斯军队造成的无数暴行”，人权观察组织表示，乌克兰当局也“不公正地起诉了生活在俄罗斯占领下的乌克兰平民”，因为他们从事被允许的工作，包括担任教师、医护人员、市政工作人员和志愿者。
While Ukraine has suffered “countless atrocities committed by Russian forces,” Human Rights Watch said Ukrainian authorities have also “unjustly prosecuted Ukrainian civilians living under Russian occupation” for doing permitted work, including as teachers, medics, municipal workers and volunteers.
总部设在日内瓦、致力于支持人权捍卫者的国际人权服务组织表示，理事会的工作从未如此重要。“真正致力于维护人权的国家应尽其所能，确保该机构包括坚持最高人权标准的国家，”该组织纽约办事处主任马德琳·辛克莱尔说道。
The International Service for Human Rights, a Geneva=based organization that supports rights defenders, said never has the work of the council been so essential“States with a real commitment to upholding human rights should be doing everything they can to ensure the body includes states that uphold the highest human rights standards,” said Madeleine Sinclair, director of its New York office.
联合国发言人杜雅瑞克在回答有关联合国对无竞争投票立场的提问时表示，这是193个成员国的事务。“但我们一直所说的是，当选为该组织最高人权机构成员的成员国，除了在本国保护人权之外，还肩负着额外的责任，即在全球范围内成为人权的坚定倡导者。”他说。
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric, responding to a question about the U.N. position on the uncontested vote, said it’s a matter for the 193 member nations. “But what we’ve always said is that member states who are elected to this organization’s highest human rights body have an added responsibility to protect human rights, not only in their own home country, but also to be strong advocates for human rights globally,” he said.