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3rd October 2011 Geneva, Switzerland

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by Bob Last

Head, UK Mission Political and Human Rights Team

Cheap Seats, Backsliding and Cuban Democracy

As the September session of the Human Rights Council drew to a close on Friday, there were some glum faces around, especially amongst the NGOs. The NGOs provide a much needed reality check to the rest of us and I think it’s a fair criticism that civil servants are often all too ready to point […]

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26th September 2011 Geneva, Switzerland

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by Bob Last

Head, UK Mission Political and Human Rights Team

False starts, prizes and little bits of history

The second week of the September Human Rights Council session was a typically frantic affair, as delegations scrambled to finalise the resolutions that they would present before Thursday’s deadline. Getting resolutions in tends to be a quite scrappy business, more like a school sports day three-legged race than a gracious Olympic sprint. Countries have quite […]

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