The United Nations Human Rights Council: A critique and early assessment
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The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to
replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Commission‘s failure had
been attributed to its increasing politicisation and decreasing ability to
discharge its mandate. Many radical reforms were not taken up at the
Council‘s creation. The Council‘s constituent instrument did provide
theoretical methods for avoiding the Commission‘s failings, all of which
required implementation by states, regional groups and political blocs. Despite
efforts at the Council‘s creation, and during early sessions, to avoid selectivity,
partiality and bias, the new body has seen little change in the problems that
had beset its predecessor. Many of the issues at the new body can be found in
other international organisations. Unlike other bodies, however, those failings
undermine the Council‘s ability to discharge its mandate. In order to examine
the Council, I have used international law alongside general theories of
international relations as applied to international organisations. Council
sessions, procedures and mechanisms have been examined, and politicisation
of the new body has been compared with the Commission‘s failings.
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Freedman, RosaCollections
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