Politics of the UN Human Rights Council
Friday, June 29, 2018
To understand the crime of genocide is to also understand the political machinations that limited its purview. No political party, nor cultural groups, for instance, were permitted coverage by the definition in the United Nations (UN) Convention responsible for criminalising it.
The same goes for the policing bodies that might use human rights in calculating fashion, less to advance an agenda of the human kind than that of the political.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...