UNGGD/humanrightsActivitysix

Human Rights Activity Six (Extension Activity)

While we’d all like to think that the issue of human rights is above politics, as the lecture by Gareth Evans demonstrated human rights is a highly political issue at the United Nations. In the below lecture, Ruth Wedgwood both introduces a number of human rights bodies at the UN and reflects on the politics associated with them:

‘Human Rights Bodies: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Human Rights Council and Regional Human Rights Bodies’: