Diplomacy and Double Standards

Justice rejects intimidation and double standards.

Double standards are inadmissible in this matter.

India, Iran, and the Case for Double Standards

Applying double standards was one of those ills.

It must be free of politicization and double standards.

CDM projects have a rigorous mechanism for ensuring additionality, for avoiding double counting, and for monitoring and verification.

Human Rights Watch, Double Standards Women's Property Rights Violations in Kenya (2003).

We should also avoid politicizing such processes and engaging in double standards.

We want a Council that better addresses rights and freedoms, without double standards.

There was a need to avoid double standards and selectivity when addressing terrorism.

Human Rights Watch, Double Standards Women's Property Rights Violations in Kenya (2003), p. 25.

They stressed the need for implementation of those resolutions without selectivity or double standards.

Australia, too, should refrain from applying double standards and making provocative, fault finding statements.

Such double standards and selectivity would only increase confrontation in the area of human rights.

Overemphasizing some human rights at the expense of others had led to selectivity and double standards.

United Nations bodies, and in particular the Security Council, must put an end to such double standards.

We are also dismayed that the report continues to retain a high degree of selectivity and double standards.

It should be free from politicization and double standards instead, it should promote dialogue as well as concrete cooperation.

At the same time, we believe it is crucial not to allow double standards in the implementation of that instrument.

Some participating States have complained of double standards and have called for a review of how the OSCE monitors elections.

This United States approach towards the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula is a typical manifestation of its double standards.

However, problems had arisen as a result of the selectivity, partiality and double standards of the Commission on Human Rights.

There should be no double standards if the Syrian Arab Republic should leave Lebanon, then Morocco should leave Western Sahara.

In general, the use of double standards would inevitably be detrimental to the ongoing efforts to protect and promote human rights.

The fight against these threats should be global, comprehensive and sustained, not selective or discriminatory, and should avoid applying double standards.

It also called on the Security Council to implement its resolutions on the Middle East conflict without selectivity or double standards.

Time and again, we have repeated that the problems that we face cannot be solved on the basis of double standards.

In conclusion, we emphasize that international resolutions must maintain neutrality and avoid double standards and selectivity when dealing with human rights issues.

The Human Rights Council should solve the credibility crisis facing the Commission on Human Rights by formulating fair, objective and transparent review standards and procedures and by refraining from politicization, double standards and selectivity.

With regard to international terrorism, Iran, as a victim of terrorism, condemns it in all its forms. But the same double standards are apparent here.

We are also sorry to witness a degree of politicization and double standards in deciding on inclusion and exclusion from the list under annex II.

He questioned how the use of the same mechanism by the new Council would produce different results from the politicization and double standards of the past.

He reiterated the objectives of the Islamic Ummah of realizing peace, combating poverty and backwardness in their respective countries and confronting the policies of double standards.

Avoiding Algeria in Egypt

Avoiding politicization of issues

The frequently documented examples of double standards and hypocrisy shown by the European Union and the United States on human rights would not lead to genuine cooperation.

At the same time, we are convinced that States parties, without double standards, must comply with all their respective obligations stemming from all articles of those agreements.

For the Human Rights Council to be effective it will have to be different from the Commission on Human Rights and avoid politicization through selectivity and double standards.

The problems arising in the field of human rights are a result of selectivity, double standards and the misappropriation of the issue of human rights for political ends.

Moreover, the Commission on Human Rights has been a textbook case of political manipulation through gross selectivity and the application of double standards over the past several decades.

Avoiding a New American Recession

And it does that avoiding obstacles.

C. Avoiding over reliance on imprisonment

The non compliance referred to by the United States delegate is a vivid example of the selectivity and double standards pursued by the United States vis à vis nuclear issues.