In 2006, when the General Assembly adopted its historic resolution 60/251, establishing the Human Rights Council, the entire international community had great hopes for that decision. The times were changing. Instead of the biased United Nations Human Rights Commission, which by then had totally dis…
Today’s General Assembly meeting is dedicated to a truly historic event. Seventy years ago, States adopted a document that shaped the entire modern system for the promotion and protection of human rights.
Nazism had just gone down to historic defeat, along with the human-hating ideology of national…
International cooperation in the field of human rights over the past years has been of increasing importance. The United Nations has the unique and important task of ensuring the conditions for a truly equitable dialogue among States. That dialogue should allow for the fullest possible realization o…
