Seton Hall Graduate Degree in International Affairs

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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.

OPINIONS

The UN Human Rights Council Dithers While the Earth Burns

Opinion by 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, OPINIONS

OPINIONS

Advice for America’s Return to the Human Rights Council, Starting With the Issue of Racism

Opinion by 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, OPINIONS, US-UN Relations

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Will the Human Rights Council’s Rare Steps to Combat Racism Make a Difference?

Opinion by 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, OPINIONS

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It’s All Clean Slates for the Next Human Rights Council Vote

Opinion by 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…