{"id":618,"date":"2007-12-27T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T01:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=618"},"modified":"2008-04-23T12:21:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:21:46","slug":"imadr-connect-mag-on-un-human-rights-councils-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"IMADR: Connect Mag on UN Human Rights Council’s first year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Blog. Here’s a synopsis from Tokyo human rights group IMADR<\/a> of how the new UN Human Rights Council is doing over its first year of existence. This has been discussed on Debito.org at the following links:<\/p>\n

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\nEconomist: UN Human Rights Council in trouble (Posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2007)<\/b><\/p>\n

A LOT of optimism attended the birth of the UN Human Rights Council, created last year by a 170-4 vote of the General Assembly. Whereas the United States kept on the sidelines (and confirmed this month it would stay away), many Western states saw the new body as an improvement on the discredited Human Rights Commission it replaced. But now some of the commission\u2019s critics are fretting that the Geneva-based council may prove only a little better, or perhaps even worse, than its predecessor\u2026
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=297<\/a><\/p>\n

Economist: UN Human Rights Council \u201cadrift on human rights\u201d (Posted on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007)<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been trying to get an opportunity to speak at the UN HRC regarding the Otaru Onsens Case, yet these articles from the Economist keep coming out and offering bad news about the meetings I\u2019ve missed. Would be nice to believe that human rights, from the organization which has established some of the most important conventions and treaties in history, still matter in this day when rules seem grey, and even the most powerful country in the world dismisses long-standing international agreements as \u201coutmoded\u201d and \u201cquaint\u201d\u2026
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=344<\/a><\/p>\n

UN.ORG on pushes to make sure HRC holds all countries accountable (Posted on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007)<\/b><\/p>\n

The UN News has been issuing press releases to make sure the Human Rights Council doesn\u2019t become as emasculated as the former Human Rights Commission\u2013by holding all countries accountable with periodic reviews of their human rights records. Good. Japan in particular is particularly remiss, given its quest for a seat on the UNSC without upholding its treaty obligations\u2026
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=470<\/a><\/p>\n

UN News: UNHCR urges HRC to begin reviews of every country\u2019s human rights record (Posted on Saturday, September 15th, 2007)<\/b><\/p>\n

UN News agency press release reports: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour today urged the Human Rights Council to press forward with its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, which allows the human rights records of every country to be scrutinized. Under this new mechanism, over the course of four years, all UN Member States \u2013 at the rate of 48 a year \u2013 will be reviewed to assess whether they have fulfilled their human rights obligations.
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=574<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nHere’s IMADR. Arudou Debito in Sapporo
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\nENDS\n<\/p>\n

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Human rights group IMADR in Tokyo offers a synopsis of the new UN Human Rights Council’s first year in existence. Scans of the print article, as well as links to other articles from The Economist and UN News archived at Debito.org, provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}