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Improvement On The Commission?: The Un Human Rights Council’S Inaction On Darfur, Rosa A. Freedman
Improvement On The Commission?: The Un Human Rights Council’S Inaction On Darfur, Rosa A. Freedman
Rosa A Freedman
The UN Human Rights Council was established in 2006 to overcome the perceived politicisation of its predecessor, the UN Human Rights Commission. This article provides initial observations of its work, based on heretofore unpublished accounts of its proceedings. Using the example of Council inaction on Darfur, evidence is examined to confirm initial fears that the Council would fail to avoid the politicisation that had undermined the Commission. A major cause of the Council’s inaction on Darfur was the collective determination of politically allied states to shift attention away from Sudan and to weaken any resolution that might be passed. This …
The United States And The Un Human Rights Council: An Early Assessment., Rosa A. Freedman
The United States And The Un Human Rights Council: An Early Assessment., Rosa A. Freedman
Rosa A Freedman
The United States assumed membership of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2009. That move reversed its decision, taken only a few months earlier under George W. Bush, to withdraw America’s official observer mission. President Obama’s new openness may suggest a fresh start to American foreign policy, but the US has not altered its basic objections to the Council’s procedures and decisions. Failures of the Council’s predecessor, the Human Rights Commission, had been attributed to politicisation and bias. Since the Commission’s dissolution, the US had warned against a repeat of the Commission’s failures. Disgruntled that those warnings were ignored, …