Papers I've Read
Time for Thailand to be bold
Time for Thailand to be bold
The Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies blog
The following is reproduced from the Bangkok Post (April 10th, 2009) where it promoted a response from the Prime Minister and was subsequently removed from their website.
In the world of protest movements who would have known that the London G20 summit could have been overshadowed by a meeting of the ASEAN leaders a few weeks after Brown and Obama swooned the worlds great and good in London?
Like (4)UN Walk Out on Ahmadinejad nothing more than quid pro quo
UN Walk Out on Ahmadinejad nothing more than quid pro quo
The Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies blog
A debate over the aptness of political stunts at the United Nations should justifiably be in full flow over the walkout of western diplomats during a speech by the Iranian leader in Geneva. The merits over this tactic have to be questioned, not least given that this is meant be the world’s fairground for free speech and political contest, but as the British Ambassador admitted, the walkout was pre-arranged and co-ordinated, off stage in a back room, off camera, with no public say.
Human Rights Reform in the United Nations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Human Rights Reform in the United Nations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Alternative Law Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2006
Recently there has been extensive criticism of the effectiveness of United Nations (UN) human rights bodies. In particular the Commission on Human Rights has been described as 'irrelevant' and 'positively destructive' because it has failed to act decisively when governments suppress human rights which they are legally bound to uphold. These kinds of accusations prompted Secretary General Kofi Annan to initiate a program of reform, a flagship of which, was to abolish the Commission and replace it with a new body to be known as the Human Rights Council. The author reviews the work of the old Commission on Human Rights and looks at the newly established Human Rights Council.