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Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Malawi, Gambia, Costa Rica, Fiji and Romania lead democracy push at the Human Rights Council

by Marc Limon, Executive Director of the Universal Rights Group Blog, Democracy, Human Rights Council, Human rights institutions and mechanisms, In focus: democracy, In focus: democracy, International human rights institutions, mechanisms and processes, Thematic human rights issues

On 11 July Ambassador Alexander Maisuradze, Permanent Representative of Georgia to the UN in Geneva, delivered a cross-regional statement at the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council calling on the body to assume a leadership role in the global reinvigoration of democracy. The statement, led by a group of main sponsors from Eastern Europe (Georgia, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine), …