Keith Harper
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2020
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To keep tabs on the lives and rights of people across the world, the United Nations Human Rights Council has the help of 44 independent monitors supposedly chosen for their expertise on a range of themes, from harsh government…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
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- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • June 28, 2018
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When Philip Alston decided to focus a report on the United States, in his role as the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, the goal was to spur a larger discussion. However, in the past…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, Poverty, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 19, 2018
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In a long-expected decision, the United States announced it was withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, the world body’s primary organ for promoting and protecting the rights of people worldwide. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 21, 2017
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As the Trump administration threatens to turn its back on international organizations unwilling to rubber-stamp Washington’s policies and meet its demands, an early inevitable target is expected to be the United Nations Human Rights Council, which is based in…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by A. Edward Elmendorf
- • July 3, 2016
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Nations Human Rights Council, the highest organ exclusively responsible for human rights in the world body, is now 10 years old. It recently received concentrated attention here in the United States capital. Such concerted…
- Categories: OPINIONS