Max,

It was by going through minutes of the last few months that I got my list of issues disscussed by the HRC. From the minutes, mostly what they DO is ‘be an international committee’. International committees can be OK ways of getting stuff done, but when the people represent their national goverenments, and get the little flag on the table in front of them things tend to deteriorate pretty quickly in the ‘doing’ department.

You identified the report correctly, I assumed that the HRC publishing the document on Iran had some signifcance, even if it did not prepare the contents. I can see I could well have been wrong about that, unless ‘some’ means ‘a little.

The reason I started looking at this was that reading Claudia’s article reminded me that I had heard two and only two kinds of stories reported in the media about the HRC

1) It only issues reports about human rights abuses perpetrated by Israel.

2) Iran wants to be a member (from the last time it tried).

When I saw the same two stories from Claudia I though that there has to be more than that.

When I found more, and some stuff that looked like more, I went with it. Of course when I found stuff that backed up my intuitions is precisely the time I should have slowed down and looked more closely, given I was trying to be factual.