The UN Human Rights Council: Five Things to Know
The UN Human Rights Council has taken an increasingly prominent role in pressing for global action on the Syrian crisis. This marks a continuing revival of the world's preeminent rights body, which replaced a discredited rights commission. CFR Senior Fellow Stewart M. Patrick looks at five chief things to know about the reconstituted forum:
- In 2006, the United Nations decided to dissolve the UN Commission on Human Rights, "which had become a haven for human rights abusers and an embarrassment." The Obama administration chose to join the forty-seven-member council, "rather than allowing human rights violators and spoilers from Cuba to Pakistan to run roughshod over it."
- Despite important improvements, the Council maintains some serious flaws, ranging from procedural roadblocks like membership criteria to political tensions between civil and political rights and economic rights.
- Regardless of these flaws, the Council's new "universal periodic review" has been a powerful instrument for advancing human rights across the world, from Iran to Zimbabwe.
- A little-known fact is the important addition of term limits to Council membership. This will force countries like Saudi Arabia, China, and Russia to "take a time-out from the Council" when their terms expire this year. Now the worst abusers cannot "fester on the Council."
- Council membership has had some crucial payoffs for the United States, including exerting pressure on Iran and Syria, and taking the lead with the United States against the former Libyan regime of Muammar al-Qaddafi.
This video is part of The Internationalist, a series dedicated to in-depth discussions about leveraging multilateral cooperation to meet today's transnational challenges. For more visit The Internationalist blog: blogs.cfr.org/patrick/
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I dont care if this is BS i need it for my class
@adorationxofficial
3 жыл бұрын
Same here
@ahmedelewa1533
4 ай бұрын
same here.
Sharing, Justice and Peace for All.
I would like to know that What is the Value of Human rights Commission's at the United Nation? Are the able to decide and rendered decisions on their Own or they dominate by the Country's commission such as permanent mission of such as Canada to the UN? Since Human rights Commission at the UN established by these countries How can they decide against them?
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@wertiadreams7949
3 жыл бұрын
You sound like a bot set up by a notification system.
This didn't age well ... This comment's written in 2020 for future readers.
American diplomacy? Hahaha....
@lisettelisette6662
4 жыл бұрын
You beat me to it.....LOL......CFR has no moral authority to point fingers.....because their imperialist endeavors are not pretty.
@CaliPlays5651
3 жыл бұрын
@@lisettelisette6662 he beat you by 6 years dumbass 😂😂😂
I’m Sanjaya Wijewardena. New Zealand citizen person. Last 06 years we lost our full time work rights. We wrote many letters to UN, human rights Commission head Quarters. Even inside wellington we cannot make a official complaint to Wellington Human rights office. There not giving any appointments if I applied paper based or online within 3 days time return back our documents. Please investigate our life’s. New Zealand prime ministers & partners Gangsters keep on threatening to our life’s. Please help us ….we need our full time work rights
I'll check it out Stewart. Thanks. The mess in Syria goes back before Nasser; in particularly 1936 Iran.
Do people actually take these words seriously?
@melaniehannigan6019
10 жыл бұрын
nope. lolz
@susannedooley9465
8 жыл бұрын
+Jason Sadaka Gemeyal Gafar Good God NO!!!! What a croc of shit...ha
Human right organization activities is important for our society
hopefully the US partecipation in the HRC is going to be different than it was its obstructive involvement in the establishment of the International Criminal Court from 1998 to 2003. Because that was not pro human rights at all. Also the fact that in 2005 the UN investigator for human rights in Afghanistan, following a report critical of human right abuses by the US military, had to leave office due to US pressure was not really an example of great US leadership in terms of human rights.
I would argue about point.5
Very informative
where can get the office of un human rights council nearest to somalia or in Somalia I am in Somalia and I am victim for police
2:14 a semantic confusion in terms given they’re completely different topics
2:01 what are the blocs?
What is the meaning of terririsiom at inter national level!!!!??
Now Laos Has No Human Right. please Help Laos People. Human Right.
@skeetrix5577
2 жыл бұрын
Communist state thats why
Start doing some decent work in Venezuela, so we "the world" can see that you guys are for real.
I know that the duty of the United Nations Human Rights Council is to enforce human rights and humanitarian law. The purpore of the United Nations Human Rights Council is to arrest those who abuse human rights. There is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The duty of the United Nations Human Rights Council is to arrest crimes against humanity and bring justice.
@TheJibbaholic
3 жыл бұрын
None of that is true. UNHRC has no enforcement mechanisms.
@whyjay9959
Жыл бұрын
No, its purpose is to protect human rights abusers from attention and to slander others. Like much of the UN it invokes lofty ideals to pursue the lowliest goals.
@lawawarenesschildstruefriend
9 ай бұрын
Very Informative.Thank you.
Forget what you heard about the expanse Whitewood
CFR Senior Fellow Stewart M. Patrick or CFR people reading this : ...at end of this vid you ask us what we think. Frankly, I can't help but think that if CFR hasn't bothered updating this in 10 years then you don't seem to care too much about the subject i.e. UN Human Rights Council . OR, (drumroll) maybe it's just that now , in 2021 , with China, Russia, Cuba , and other human rights offenders as members, the Council has simply reverted back to being as meaningless as it's predecessor the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and that would be touchy for you to address while these members are still active.
help the philippines of JDK
Where are in the Caribbean what is the next step we are lost
What are you doing about human rights in pakistan
Sir, de- addiction centres have grown up as a business for their profits, keep picking their prospecting sources of income without one or the other reason, disrupting the life of married couples due to instigation on their part. What shoud I do? A copy of the same is being sent to NHRC, India. yes, I am a smoker, a casual drinker, fulfilling all needs of my family, where comes the NARCO AGENCIES ?
Please applying this Video's to Laos Country Now As Soon As Possible.
Every country is guilty of human rights violations in some form or another
100 dollars donation to UN commission= 1 investigation of human rights I know this because I tried to report a minecraft server for human rights violations (minecraftonline.com) and found out it costs to have a humsn rights investigation and people don't work for free . As soon as I pay 1 billion dollars to fulfill the back load of human rights violations filings they will consider looking into the human rights violations on minecraft servers
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ONLY FAR INDIA KOLKATA
opinion but everybody who's trying get rich off what is swapped between seas are mostly rich.we still need resources but mainly we are fighting to stay rich.numbers don't add up..at all to me.but I like my little yard like everyone else amen.self sufficiency is good for our people who need work.
DEÜ lobi burada mı 😎
What is H R C doing in India about Muslims and Christian human rights
Huh. His litmus test for legitimacy is the vice of focusing on Israel...
We need UDHR in our daily life .🙏
UNHRC declares all is good in Sinjiang, all is good in Tibet....what a joke
Yabadabadu
@PredatorGamingTR
Жыл бұрын
dur kardeşim geçme
@kaganerdogann35
Жыл бұрын
@@PredatorGamingTR Bilmeden gelip bastığın, Bu toprak, bir devrin battığı yerdir.
how was it morally to go into war in Islamc countries after september 11th 2001
human rights the world we live their are alot of human rights problem that their is no any solution steal like somalia so what untid national do all humanterian problem and people who can't make then selfs any thing am sorry all those things
I am curious how is "focusing obsessively on Isreal" as you've put it a bad thing, are you living in an alternative universe where Israel is not an apartheid regime and where it is not engaged in a systematic ethnic cleansing?
@lisettelisette6662
4 жыл бұрын
That is the imperialist trick....the Israeli lobby dictates US foreign policy and you don't have the right to question the tyranny of these supremacist. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), independent nonpartisan think tank and publisher that promotes understanding of international relations and foreign policy founded in 1921 right after the barbaric war against Germany and the beginning of America's imperialist endeavors around the world. Henry Kissinger turned plundering the natural resources of developing countries in official US foreign policy.
@TheJibbaholic
2 жыл бұрын
The UNHRC has issued more condemnations of Israel than the rest of the world combined. Do you not think that is excessive?
@whyjay9959
Жыл бұрын
You're a liar just like them.
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It's still useless!
@wertiadreams7949
3 жыл бұрын
Then advocate dummy so it's not useless
no thanks dude at 4.55.i dont do trans or bi.
Responsible people leadership No working on Refugee case Need Human Rights for people . world in Refugee problem from the Financial consider need from the Human Rights on Govt Refugee Responsible and case to international . procedure media and leadership world Responsible. Human Rights council.
#StewartMPatrick #ShameOnYou
If you really una humen rights take step for pakistani christion becuse menorities are not safe in pakistan pakistan make stupied your concel not given actull rights for menorities and menorities are not safe in pakistan
Obviously american propaganda
Kurdish MP- Turkey belongs to Greece, Armenia and Kurdistan. Please watch this. I believe they killed him right there for speaking the truth. Watch how Anatolia was colonized. Human rights? There is no human rights for Kurdish people and no one knows. Watch Kurd talks to Turks.
I’m Sanjaya Wijewardena. New Zealand citizen person. Last 06 years we lost our full time work rights. We wrote many letters to UN, human rights Commission head Quarters. Even inside wellington we cannot make a official complaint to Wellington Human rights office. There not giving any appointments if I applied paper based or online within 3 days time return back our documents. Please investigate our life’s. New Zealand prime ministers & partners Gangsters keep on threatening to our life’s. Please help us ….we need our full time work rights