Politics of the UN Human Rights Council

The margin between what is a human right as an inalienable possession, and how it is seen in political terms is razor fine. In some cases, the distinctions are near impossible to make.

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.

Editor's Comment
Closure as pain lingers

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...

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