March 17, 2021 | The National Interest
How Politics Has Poisoned the United Nations
At its core, the UN Human Rights Council is a political body, and no one should expect the Universal Periodic Review process to be immune.
March 17, 2021 | The National Interest
How Politics Has Poisoned the United Nations
At its core, the UN Human Rights Council is a political body, and no one should expect the Universal Periodic Review process to be immune.
The UN Human Rights Council held a mirror to the United States’ human rights record this week by adopting the outcomes of the country’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Unfortunately, because of the body’s politicized nature, the reflection the UPR offered was a deeply distorted one.