Peter Splinter
Peter Splinter is an independent human-rights consultant. He represented Amnesty International to the United Nations in Geneva from 2004 to 2016. In that role, he was closely involved in the establishment and operation of the Human Rights Council.
- Peter Splinter
- • October 5, 2021
GENEVA — It is time for the United Nations Human Rights Council to take climate change much more seriously than it has been and to treat the issue with the urgency, deliberation and action that it demands. The Council…
- Categories: Climate Change, Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Peter Splinter
- • March 17, 2021
GENEVA — The United States’ decision to re-engage with the United Nations Human Rights Council, announced last month, has been welcomed in many quarters. The news offered a sense of the priorities the US would have in returning to…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Peter Splinter
- • July 29, 2020
GENEVA — In early June, some family members of victims of police killings in the United States and more than 600 civil society organizations worldwide wrote to the United Nations Human Rights Council to request that it urgently hold a…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Peter Splinter
- • October 8, 2018
GENEVA — The annual ritual of holding elections for vacant seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council for a three-year term is set for Oct. 12. All five regional groups have clean slates: the number of candidates is…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
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