Tag: United Nations

China’s growing influence at the UN Human Rights Council - Articles

• What implications for Latin America and the Global South? •

Raphael Viana David | SUR N.32 | DEC/2022

The Human Rights of Migrants and Covid-19 - Articles

• The response of UN special procedures and committees •

Felipe González Morales, Renato Zerbini Ribeiro Leão | SUR N.31 | DEC/2021

When the Defenders are Silenced - Essays

• Addressing the Impact of Intimidation on Engagement with the UN Human Rights System •

Madeleine Sinclair | SUR N.30 | Aug/2020

Putting Racial Equality onto the Global Human Rights Agenda - The Sur File on Race and Human Rights

E. Tendayi Achiume | SUR N.28 | Dec/2018

Are We Depoliticising Economic Power? - Themes

• Wilful Business Irresponsibility and Bureaucratic Response by Human Rights Defenders •

Janet Love | SUR N.20 | Jun/Dec/2014

Emerging Powers - Themes

• Can it Be that Sexuality and Human Rights is a Lateral Issue? •

Sonia Corrêa | SUR N.20 | Jun/Dec/2014

Human Rights Diplomacy in the 21st Century - SUR file on Foreign Policy and Human Rights

• New Powers, New Approaches? •

David Petrasek | SUR N.19 | Dec/2013

Cooperation Between the Universal and Inter-American Human Rights Systems in the Framework of the Universal Periodical Review Mechanism - SUR file on Regional Human Rights Mechanisms

Antonio M. Cisneros de Alencar | SUR N.13 | Dec/2010

From Commission to Council - SUR file on the Sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• has the United Nations succeeded in creating a credible human rights body? •

Katherine Short | SUR N.9 | Jan/2008

The Birth and the Heart of the Arms Trade Treaty - The Sur File on arms and human rights

• The ATT could advance the protection of human rights, if states robustly assess their arms’ exports •

Brian Wood, Rasha Abdul-Rahim | SUR N.22 | Dec/2015