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HUMAN RIGHTS
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The Inside Story of a Senior UN Human Rights Official’s Resignation.
The G|O talks to Craig Mokhiber
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UN Paralysed in Gaza as War Crimes Mount and Children Go Hungry
UN Paralysed in Gaza as War Crimes Mount and Children Go Hungry
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#153 The G|O Briefing, October 5, 2024
The IOM's Amy Pope, Unfiltered | "Current Global Migration Governance Framework Is Woefully Inadequate" | Emerging Nations Bring Deforestation Regulation Grievances to Geneva | China Re-ignites Cold War Debate Over Human Rights
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: China Attacks Western Norms as a Cold War Debate Re-ignites in Geneva
Beyond geopolitical and material confrontations, an ideological battle dating back to the Cold War is being re-ignited over the universality of human rights and their implementation.
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Western countries concerned about what they see as Beijing’s renewed attempt to curtail the independence of the Office of the UN Human Rights Chief
Our exclusive story today reveals how China is using the moment to try to restrict both the independence and the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, de facto using the multilateral system itself to hollow it out from within.
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#149 The G|O Briefing, September 7, 2023
Repression of Uyghurs in China: one year on, revisiting the "Bachelet report" | What to make of the BRICS' expansion?
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A year after the Bachelet report on China’s repression of the Uyghurs, how to deal with Beijing’s human rights violations? Volker Türk’s arduous task in a fast-shifting geopolitical landscape
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International Geneva’s continued love affair with FIFA
“The leadership of football does not answer to the court of public opinion; it responds to its own constituency. Its leaders depend for their survival on those whom they ought to reform; power in FIFA is a political cartel."
British Conservatives' Contempt for Human Rights
Gordon Brown | The UK’s Tories have been targeting the European Convention on Human Rights for a decade. Now, they appear closer than ever to abandoning it – a move that would betray Britain’s human-rights record and reputation and make it an international outlier, alongside Russia and Belarus.