This was a call for the internalization of human rights throughout the United Nations system. It is, of course, notoriously difficult to think strategically about how best to use the limited ...

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as with the permanent members of the UN Security Council) to simply choose which countries are fit to protect human rights, it is hard to see how the system could be improved. And then there is ...

illuminating the challenges faced by the UN human rights system. Its methodology offers a valuable tool applicable in various contexts, including judicial deliberations, legislative processes ...

The Commission on Human ... rights, women and development, elderly women, etc. A second function of the Commission is to make recommendations, via ECOSOC to the Secretary-General and appropriate ...

After the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), it took years for the Organisation of the United Nations (UN) to elaborate and adopt legal instruments and control ...

C.G.: China’s accusations of Western double standards are having an impact because they are part of a general questioning of the UN human rights system. China is exploiting legitimate criticism ...