But it has succeeded spectacularly on one: the United Nations Human Rights Council.
He presented the Kashmiri case in 17 sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva from 2006 until June 2011.
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If the European Union and the United Nations Human Rights Council have already accommodated themselves to this demand, why should we object?
The decree was issued by Sheikh Khalifa just hours after the UAE was elected to a three-year term on the United Nations Human Rights Council.
In May it lost its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council (not a body demanding the highest standards: Russia, Cuba and Saudi Arabia are members).
He has also protested against the Indian government's position on a resolution on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka which is before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
The appeal court decision was announced the day after the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) issued a statement condemning "the continued harassment and imprisonment of persons exercising their rights to freedom of opinion and expression in Bahrain".
BBC: Zainab al-Khawaja at a protest in Manama (18 April 2012)
Also last year, the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Safety of Journalists calling for "States to promote a safe and enabling environment for journalists to perform their work independently and without undue interference".
The depth of the President's sense of global civic duty is also evident in the recent move to engage with the United Nations Human Rights Council, whose membership includes some of the world's most egregious human rights violators and other undemocratic countries that use their position to launch hyper-politicized attacks on democratic Israel.
In addition to the aforementioned United Nations Human Rights Council resolution in 2012, the 2nd UN Inter-Agency Meeting in Vienna, Austria last year, adopted a concrete global, regional, and national level implementation strategy was adopted for the UN Plan of Action.
At the United Nations human-rights council in Geneva, Sri Lanka last month shrugged off attempts by Western countries to institute an inquiry into alleged war crimes by both sides.
In September 2009, the Obama administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution eagerly sought by the Muslim Brotherhood and its friends.
Frist and his colleagues to take such a step by precluding the use of any American funds provided for the United Nations and its operations by or on behalf of the Human Rights Council.
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One, personally, how does the President feel about the United Nations itself as an organization as far as Human Rights Council and other issues are concerned?
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