The new president of the United Nations Human Rights Council has paid our Geneva UN office a compliment on one of its reports – with just a little regional adjustment. At his election Martin I Uhomoibhi spoke warmly of the publication: 'In August 2007 a respected organisation in Geneva, the Quaker United Nations Office, published a treatise with the interesting title Neither Mountain nor Anthill – the Human Rights Council: One Year On. Almost one year after the publication of the said paper one is tempted to ask the question "has the HRC become a mountain or has it remained an anthill?"'
Actually, QUNO chose moles for its title metaphor – Neither Mountain nor Molehill, but there appears to have been a swap of underground creatures by the time the new president, who is Nigerian, got to read it.

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