Universal Periodic Review
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • June 26, 2018
There is a crisis in the United Nations human-rights system. Secretary-General António Guterres can lead the way out of it. Indeed, the world continues to look to the UN secretary-general to stand up for the principles of the organization….
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • April 3, 2018
When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 70 years ago, the hopes of its drafters and of people across the globe was that it would help transform the world into a place of freedom and justice. Sadly, the…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein
- • December 12, 2017
STONE TOWN, Tanzania — When a story circulated in August 2017 of male lions attempting to copulate with each other in Kenya’s Masai Mara national park, headlines and Twitter feeds went wild with speculation, ridicule and accusation. Despite Kenya being…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, LGBT
- Bertrand G. Ramcharan
- • October 15, 2017
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, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Rosa Freedman and Aoife Hegarty
- • November 17, 2015
BIRMINGHAM, England — During its Universal Period Review session recently at the Human Rights Council, Austria’s delegation commended Conchita Wurst for promoting antidiscrimination and raising awareness of LGBTI issues. Wurst famously represented Austria in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest,…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
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