UN universal periodic review
- Opinion by Geoffrey Roberts
- • February 24, 2020
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For the last decade, Western democracies and human-rights defenders have been locked in a tense struggle with authoritarian great powers at the United Nations. Since 2009, Russia and China have waged a highly successful campaign to dismantle the international…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Vincent Ploton
- • November 20, 2017
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When recently asked what keeps him up at night, António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, gave a straight answer: bureaucracy as well as “fragmented structures, byzantine procedures, endless red tape.” Such flaws also apply to UN human-rights mechanisms, and…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Secretary-General
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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…
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