Bertrand Ramcharan
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • August 20, 2018
The soul of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights is being destroyed with the disappearance of human-rights justice in the world. Everyone should be concerned if not frightened. The appointment of Michelle Bachelet of Chile as UN high…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, WORLDVIEWS
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • June 26, 2018
There is a crisis in the United Nations human-rights system. Secretary-General António Guterres can lead the way out of it. Indeed, the world continues to look to the UN secretary-general to stand up for the principles of the organization….
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • May 17, 2018
As World War II ended and the horrors of the Holocaust unfolded before a stunned humanity, the victims, their families and people of good will sought to construct a new world order of justice grounded in recognition of inalienable…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • April 19, 2018
While slavery and inhumane practices have still not been eradicated, the United Nations has done much to expose them and to help stamp them out. Its efforts continue. Early after its establishment, the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights carried…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, International Justice
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • April 3, 2018
When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 70 years ago, the hopes of its drafters and of people across the globe was that it would help transform the world into a place of freedom and justice. Sadly, the…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • February 28, 2018
There is still a long way to go to uphold the rights of women worldwide, and UN Women, a department of the Secretariat, is now carrying the torch in this struggle. It builds on the efforts of the UN…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Women
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • February 15, 2018
Indigenous people, several millions of them, live in more than 80 countries and have long suffered, and continue to suffer, from injustices. Until 1981, they had no global forum in which to appear to plead for justice and for…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • January 30, 2018
From 1970 to 2000, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the predecessor to today’s Human Rights Council, considered in closed meetings and acted on some 80 country situations where there were reliable allegations of gross violations of human…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • January 23, 2018
During some of the darkest days of the Cold War, thousands of people gained their freedom, thanks to the United Nations, in a story that has never been told before. It is time that this story — and others…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • January 7, 2018
The United Nations Charter requires each and every member state to discharge its obligations by faithfully carrying out norms of legally binding international human-rights law. These may be norms of international customary law, those contained in treaties or those…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • November 28, 2017
The Security Council is the most authoritative organ of the United Nations, and supporters of the Council naturally expect it to exercise that authority when gross violations of human rights shock the conscience of humanity. During the Cold War,…
- Categories: Human Rights, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
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