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Human Rights During Power Transitions Open
This chapter analyzes the implications of global power-shifts within the UN human rights machinery, with a specific focus on the OHCHR and connected offices which are dependent on the UN Secretariat for support. While the OHCHR has receive…
"It's Not Whatever, Because This Is Where the Problem Starts": Racialized Strategies of Elimination as Determinants of Health in Palestine. Open
In this paper, we examine the social construction of race as a determinant of health inequities in Palestine. Race myths about Palestinians conform to the "logic of elimination" integral to settler colonialism, predicated on the dispossess…
Misconceptions and Misrepresentation: Challenging UK Media Reports of Recent Visits of UN Special Procedures Open
With headlines referencing ‘U.N.ACCEPTABLE Clueless UN official’, ‘“loopy” UN inspector’ and ‘UN meddler’, it is clear that UN special procedure mandate holders can be subjected to negative national press coverage when visiting the United …
Form over Substance? China’s Contribution to Human Rights through Universal Periodic Review Open
This article will analyse the Chinese contribution to the first cycle of the Human Rights Council's universal periodic review.In 2006, the then new U.N. Human Rights Council 2 was tasked with establishing the modalities of a universal peri…