‘A diamond in the rough’: How to strengthen the Human Rights Council’s delivery of technical assistance & capacity-building support (Item 10 reform)

by Marc Limon, Executive Director of the Universal Rights Group Human rights institutions and mechanisms, International human rights institutions, mechanisms and processes, Policy reports

‘A diamond in the rough’: How to strengthen the Human Rights Council’s delivery of technical assistance & capacity-building support (Item 10 reform)

The present policy brief provides thoughts on how the Council might strengthen the delivery of domestic capacity-building support in the future – how it might ‘reset and revitalize item 10.’

Human rights in Sudan: the new test case for the Human Rights Council

by Marc Limon, Executive Director of the Universal Rights Group and Sandra Petrovic, Universal Rights Group Blog, Blog, Human rights institutions and mechanisms, Item 10, Uncategorized

The situation of human rights in Sudan, and the fortunes and history of the UN human rights system, have been closely intertwined for decades. Indeed, one of the reasons the former Commission on Human Rights collapsed after the turn of the century was because Sudan won a seat on the Commission at the same time as the State was responsible …