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Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Activity One (Required Activity)
Watch the video: The Protection and Promotion of Human Rights: Achievements and Challenges (1:22:11)
Today's speaker, Navi Pillay, was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014.
As you watch, consider the following questions:
- How does Pillay address the argument that human rights are a Western construct, imposed on non-Western countries?
- What is Pillay's perspective on the relative importance of civil and political rights compared to economic and developmental rights? (You will hear a very different perspective on this issue in module nine).
- What role does Pillay envision for civil society in a reformed UN?
- How does Pillay view the role of the UN in responding to the crisis in Syria?
