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.
The recent disclosure by the IEC that 2,513 registrations have been turned down due to various irregularities should prompt all Batswana to meticulously review the voters' rolls and address concerns about rejected registrations.The disparities flagged by the IEC are troubling and emphasise the significance of rigorous voter registration processes.Out of the rejected registrations, 29 individuals were disqualified due to non-existent Omang...