Note
Naming human rights violators at the UN is a sad game given the countries that form the UN majority - as a newly-released UN report on sexual violence in conflict situations evidences. The detailed report is worried about simply naming specific countries as responsible for these heinous crimes. In the body of the report, crimes committed by government armed forces or grossly inadequate laws fueling the problem are identified. But when it came time to list the perpetrators in an annex, the report (a) limited itself only to the few "situations of armed conflict on the Security Council agenda" and (b) added: "It should be noted that the annex does not list countries as such. The purpose of the list is to identify particular parties to conflict that are credibly suspected of committing or being responsible for patterns of rape and other forms of sexual violence. In that regard, the names of countries are mentioned only in order to indicate the locations or situations where offending parties are committing the violations in question."