In a major move to improve the human rights record of the Gulf states, senior officials of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) reviewed the draft charter of the GCC Human Rights panel in Riyadh yesterday. \”This was the third meeting of the human rights bodies of the Gulf governments to discuss and decide measures to audit human rights records across the Gulf and to unify their positions,\” the Saudi daily (Arab News) quoted Ahmed Al-Kabi, a GCC spokesman, as saying.