Tag: DPRK

26th March 2012 Geneva, Switzerland

Head, UK Mission Political and Human Rights Team

Council Catharsis

For every Council delegate there is one resolution, above all others, whose success or failure takes over their life. It dominates their working hours and prays on their subconscious mind even during the little sleep it’s possible to squeeze in. For me, it was Sri Lanka. There was a huge amount riding on the United […]

19th March 2012 Geneva, Switzerland

by Bob Last

Head, UK Mission Political and Human Rights Team

Good Manners and Bad Behaviour

It’s been a strange week. Even during the frenzied latter stages of a Human Rights Council session you expect the UN to be a courteous place. Anything less than model behaviour would feel out of place in an organisation devoted to peace and harmony and based in a country whose last outbreak of anything resembling […]