{"id":331026,"date":"2010-02-16T23:02:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T04:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11336"},"modified":"2010-02-16T23:02:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T04:02:50","slug":"maybe-joining-the-un-human-rights-council-is-paying-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/331026","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Joining the UN Human Rights Council is Paying Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conservatives and human rights groups have rightly pummeled the new UN Human Rights Council as a deeply problematic institution, characterized by a strange obsession with Israel. \u00a0But the Obama Administration joined anyway, despite criticism, and they won a small payoff this week in Geneva. \u00a0The HRC finally got tough (well, at least they focused on) someone other than Israel. \u00a0The target on Monday? Iran. \u00a0The <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/16\/world\/middleeast\/16geneva.html\">NYT reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a  title=\"State Dept. Web site.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/biog\/27700.htm\">Michael H. Posner<\/a>, an assistant secretary of state, told the council that since disputed presidential elections in June, Iran had suppressed the protests of millions of Iranians, \u201coften resorting to violence,\u201d resulting in detentions, injuries and deaths. Mr. Posner, the top United States official for human rights, also condemned growing restrictions on freedom of expression and called for immediate action by Iran to end torture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The benefit to the HRC going after Iran instead of the US alone going after Iran is obvious. \u00a0 The downside of course is that the UN HRC won&#8217;t do much (it can&#8217;t), and it may well elect Iran to its membership next year. \u00a0But for the time being, this is a useful forum to convince third-parties (read: Canadian and European allies) that Iran deserves isolation and censure. \u00a0Unfortunately, I doubt it will make a difference to Russia and China. But it is a (small) achievement of the new Obama policy and deserves to be recognized as such.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/xDUxCI1inI0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku Conservatives and human rights groups have rightly pummeled the new UN Human Rights Council as a deeply problematic institution, characterized by a strange obsession with Israel. \u00a0But the Obama Administration joined anyway, despite criticism, and they won a small payoff this week in Geneva. \u00a0The HRC finally got tough (well, at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}