Human Rights Council

Human Rights and Confronting China Geopolitically

[Prefatory Note: The collaborative opinion piece below written by the Geneva jurist, Alfred de Zayas, and myself, is a reaction again the criticism directed at the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, about her recent mission to China. The complaint of Western governments, mainstream journalists, and some China experts was that the Chinese […]

Ex-UN Human Rights Expert Blasts ‘Manipulation’ on Venezuela: ‘We Are Swimming in an Ocean of Lies’

Former UN Special Rapporteur Alfred de Zayas criticized the human rights commissioner’s past reports on Venezuela, calling them “unprofessional” and…
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Once Again, Haley Accuses Others for US Failure at Rights Council Reform

Iceland was elected by the United Nations General Assembly to fill the vacant seat, above, left in the Human Rights Council by the United States, after it resigned the Geneva-based body on June 19, 2018.  JEAN-MARC FERRE/UN PHOTO
In the middle of last week, when the Trump administration was still unable to say how it “lost” more than 2,500 children torn from their asylum-seeking parents at the border with Mexico, Nikki Haley, the United States envoy to the United Nations, was telling a different story to a sympathetic group in Washington, D.C.