To answer your very good question, I have to say that if one looks at, for instance, the list of co-sponsors of the resolution that Canada introduced in the General Assembly in November 2007, one is hard-pressed to find an African state, or certainly a state from the Middle East region. I think the voting list will show a similar kind of pattern.
That is one illustration of a broad phenomenon, which is the heavy politicization of human rights issues, particularly in a forum such as the United Nations, which is made up of states and where state interests tend to dictate the issues a state raises and determine whether it gets the support of other states. Frankly, there's plenty of blame to go around on the part, if not of all, of most parties in contributing to that politicization, which is why I made the recommendation I did in my presentation about the need for a country such as Canada, when it addresses human rights in the world, but particularly in the Middle East, to look for ways to contribute to depoliticizing the issue.