1st Edition
Human Rights Human Wrongs In the Scale of Human Conscience
By Shambhu Ram Simkhada
Copyright 2021
222 Pages
9 Color & 1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
9 Color & 1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the best gift of the United Nations and its main human rights organ, the Human Rights Commission to “We, the Peoples of the World”. But that powerful instrument is often rendered powerless by the behaviour of individuals running the institutions and the states, arguably the most powerful institution conceptualised by human mind so far. In the... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Human Rights: Historical Perspective and Contemporary Development 3. The 56th Session of the Commission on Human Rights 4. Fifth Special Session of the CHR 5. Emerging Issues in the Global Human Rights Agenda
Epilogue: From the Commission to the Council: Human Rights in the United Nations
Epilogue: From the Commission to the Council: Human Rights in the United Nations
Biography
Shambhu Ram Simkhada is a former Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Ambassador to Switzerland.
