In the UN, China uses threats and cajolery to promote its worldview
March 16, 2020
Not since the cold war has the organisation become such a battleground for competing visions of the international order.
Category: Human Rights
Why the ICJ Is Trying to Protect Myanmar’s Rohingya
February 9, 2020
Many Han Chinese don’t mind the gulag for their Uighur neighbours
January 13, 2020
Aung San Suu Kyi: How a peace icon ended up at a genocide trial – BBC News
December 16, 2019
Human Rights Pulse
December 16, 2019
Website that shares human rights news and information. Good place to find current happenings.
THE XINJIANG PAPERS
November 25, 2019
Last month, a State Department official testified before a Senate committee that Chinese authorities have “indefinitely detained at least 800,000 and possibly more than 2 million Uighurs, ethnic Khazaks and other members of Muslim minorities in internment camps” since April 2017. What foreign reporting has been possible in Xinjiang — which Beijing has subjected to a draconian lockdown — has revealed a vast network of “reeducation centers,” barbed-wire-ringed compounds and factories that have housed possibly more than a tenth of the region’s population of Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/01/09/cone-silence-around-chinas-muslim-gulags/
Myanmar Genocide Lawsuit Is Filed at United Nations Court
November 11, 2019
Gambia, on behalf of Rohingya Muslims, opens an international dispute with Myanmar in an effort to have the country’s leadership tried for genocide.
The court’s 15 judges rarely deal with genocide. Based in the stately Peace Palace in The Hague, the Court of Justice was set up by the United Nations to rule on disputes between nations. It acts more like a court of appeal, focusing on questions of international law, such as disputes over borders or disagreements over international conventions.
The case against human rights
September 10, 2018
Many believe that international human rights law is one of our greatest moral achievements. But there is little evidence that it is effective. A radically different approach is long overdue
And yet it is hard to avoid the conclusion that governments continue to violate human rights with impunity. Why, for example, do more than 150 countries (out of 193 countries that belong to the UN) engage in torture? Why has the number of authoritarian countries increased in the last several years? Why do women remain a subordinate class in nearly all countries of the world? Why do children continue to work in mines and factories in so many countries?
The truth is that human rights law has failed to accomplish its objectives. There is little evidence that human rights treaties, on the whole, have improved the wellbeing of people.
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