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The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the U.N. Commission on Human Rights that had failed to hold governments to account for violating basic human rights and fundamental freedoms.
The Recording Academy® has announced it is teaming up with several United Nations Human Rights-supported global initiatives to harness the power of music to promote social justice around the world. The multifaceted campaign will engage major artists to use their talents and unique platform to galvanize support for United Nations Human Rights goals, including advocacy for LGBTQ rights, gender equality, women’s empowerment, climate justice, and a broad range of other human rights issues.
The Obama Administration is wrong if it believes that the effortsof countries determined to undermine the aims of the U.N. Human Rights Council will be overcome by U.S. membership on the council.
In a highly competitive field, Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann surely wins the award for worst ever President of the 192-member United Nation General Assembly. The former Sandinista foreign minister and excommunicated Catholic priest has been a massive embarrassment, even by the extraordinarily low standards of the UN.
On January 20, 2009, the incoming Administration will confront amultitude of international issues. The primary challenge facing the new Representative of the United States of America to the UnitedNations is a U.N. suffering from confused purposes and competinginterests among member states. In order to determine where the nextU.S. ambassador to the United Nations stands on this and othercrucial issues, the following questions should be put to thenominee during her confirmation hearing on January 15.