The United Nations Human Rights Council: A Reflection of the Global Confrontation

For the first time in the 10-year history of the United Nations Human Rights Council the election of its members has caused somewhat of a stir. In the run-up to the election, the Anglo-Saxon states put an unprecedented amount of pressure on the other UN members to ensure that Russia would not be re-elected to the Council . A number of human rights organizations were brought in to “sway” public opinion; they sent petition to the Human Rights Council demanding that Russia be excluded...