UN Human Rights Commission
- Opinion by Bertrand Ramcharan
- • January 30, 2018
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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, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Bertrand Ramcharan
- • January 23, 2018
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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, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Bertrand G. Ramcharan
- • October 15, 2017
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Problems encircling the United Nations Human Rights Council are verging toward a major crisis. The same crisis had engulfed its predecessor, the Commission on Human Rights, leading the secretary-general at the time, Kofi Annan, to call to replace it…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 6, 2017
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In a much-anticipated series of speeches in Geneva on June 6, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, would not say whether a decision had been made by the Trump administration about US membership in the…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Christen L. Broecker
- • June 4, 2017
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Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, will address the Human Rights Council at the opening meeting of it 35th session, on June 6. She has said she intends to put the 47 members of the Council…
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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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