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The United Nations Human Rights Council: Is the United States Right to Leave this Club?

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Author	Joseph, Sarah Jenkin, Eleanor
Copyright Year	2019
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal The United Nations Human Rights Council is the key global intergovernmental human rights institution. Yet in 2018, the United States quit this body, citing numerous grievances including dissatisfaction with the human rights records of the States elected to it. Here, we explain how and why the Council functions as it does. First we provide an outline of the Council, explaining its composition, mandate and activities. It is apparent that the Council is not functioning as well as it should in promoting and protecting human rights worldwide. We then place the Council in its political context, including the pervasive nature of politicization within the Council, its fundamental North/South divide, and the reasons behind its infamous bias against Israel. Finally, we suggest a way forward. Using the example of the Council’s treatment of sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”) rights as a case study, we argue that the Council’s potential will only be fulfilled when the majority of its Members take proper “ownership” of human rights rather than continue to treat it as a political football within the broader North/South divide.
Related Links	https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1941&context=auilr https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=3368992
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.3368992
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2019-04-09
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Political Science Human Rights Council United Nations United States Human Rights Sogi Rights Lgbti Rights
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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