- GENEVA (AFP) The United Nations
will release a report on Saturday about human rights in Iraq, a spokesman
said today, noting foot-dragging by the US-led coalition delayed the document's
release.
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- Demanded by the acting UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan, the report was supposed to have been presented
yesterday.
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- But members of the coalition "asked for more time
to be able to provide information", Jose Diaz, a spokesman for the
UN human rights office told a news conference in Geneva.
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- Diaz denied the content of the report had been altered
at the demand of Iraq's occupying forces.
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- "We have received now most of that information and
that is being put into the report," he said. "There is no one
report that is being altered."
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- The text was called for during an annual meeting of the
UN's Commission on Human Rights in April, just before the prisoner abuse
scandal erupted.
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- At the time, advocacy groups criticised the absence of
a specific resolution for Iraq by the UN human rights watchdog for the
first time in a decade.
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