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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.

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

October 8, 2018

by Peter Splinter

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 equal to the number of open seats. Notwithstanding talk about the need to improve the …

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

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