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The United States says it will do more to respect human
rights, as the U.N. adopted its first-ever report on how Washington can
improve.

The report included 228 recommendations, but the U.S.
brushed many of them aside _ raising heckles from adversaries such as
Cuba, Iran and Venezuela.

State Department legal adviser Harold
Koh outlined nine key improvement areas Friday _ ranging from civil
rights to national security to immigration, including intolerance of
torture and the humane treatment of suspects at the Guantanamo Bay
detention facility in Cuba.

The U.S. only joined the 47-nation
council last year, and it is the first time the 5-year-old council has
reviewed its human rights record.