(KUNA) -- Nobel Laureate Jody Williams lashed on Friday at the members of the Human Rights Council who rejected the Drafur mission report and said that she will become a human rights activist on Darfur and is ready to head a fact finding mission to the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt). Williams, added in a news conference after a five hour discussion on the validity and legality of the report she submitted as head of the mission appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council to examine the Human Rights Violations committed in Darfur, that if she were to head a mission on the human rights situation in the oPt the roles would be reversed in the Council, those who rejected the Darfur report would support the oPt one.
She defended the mission and the report and described the mission of being true to the task assigned, and that the mission was focused on a report to help the people of Darfur. Williams defended the legality, credibility and objectivity of the mission, and that the mission was very comfortable of how it proceeded. "If they wanted to test our credibility I suggested they send the same mission, with the same secretariat and mandate to Palestine, I would like to see how the discussion in the room would flip flop from today," she stressed. She added: "I doubt that they would be following our suggestion but it would be certainly interesting".
Regarding credibility Williams said that this issue lies with the Council and not with the mission. "If the Council chooses not to consider our report it will have an impact on the credibility of the Council and not on this mission," she stressed. She expressed her hope that the Council would live up to its obligations as well. |