September 22nd, 2007 | Category:
Amnesty International,
UN
In a July 2007 article, The Human Rights Council: A New Era in UN Human Rights Work?, Yvonne Terlingen, the director of Amnesty International’s offices at the UN, directed pointed criticism at the activity of the allegedly ‘reformed’ UN Human Rights Council. Discussing the Councils actions […]
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June 30th, 2007 | Category:
Human Rights Watch,
Amnesty International,
UN,
NGOs,
International Federation of Human Rights
NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International argued that the new UN Human Rights Council would be different from the discredited Commission on Human Rights. They were wrong. On June 19, the UN Human Rights Council adopted new procedures for its second year in operation, including […]
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May 31st, 2007 | Category:
Human Rights Watch,
Amnesty International
A new UN Watch Report, “Dawn of New Era?”, analyzes the performance of the UN HRC in its first year. UN Watch concludes that the new council has largely been a failure and in some instances even worse than before. According to the report, the body has a “brazen alliance” of repressive […]
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