Reforming the Human Rights Council:
(2009) MRSK01 20091Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- The purpose of this essay is to examine how the reform process of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has handled the problem of membership, politicization and selectivity and if the reform have led to an improvement. This question is answered by comparing the Commission on Human Rights with the Human Rights Council.
The conclusion of the study is that the reform has not led to any significant improvement in the three problem areas. The membership is still composed of states with bad human rights records and the Council is, like the Commission was, still selective towards Israel. And the question of politicization has not been solved.
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- author
- Linghammar, Philip LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Addressing Critique or Applying Cosmetics?
- course
- MRSK01 20091
- year
- 2009
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- selectivity, politicization, Human Rights Council, Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, qdvisory Committee, reform
- language
- English
- id
- 1405622
- date added to LUP
- 2009-06-16 14:07:54
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:27:45
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