UNHRC cracking under overbearing weight of Navi Pillay

UNHRC is stuck in a crisis of its own making. It has begun to crack under the watch of Ms. Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner. It is time for her to get her act together and hold the scales evenly to preserve the image of the UNHRC as a credible institution for all the nations to rally round it.

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Sri Lanka Rights Watch

HUMAN RIGHTS and concern for the NEGLECTED

Amongst the agencies that I have worked with over the last year to encourage movement on the National Human Rights Action Plan, the most important from outside the government sector has been the Institute of Human Rights. They have been the most regular in attendance of the groups that come together in the informal consultative mechanism I set up together with the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, even before I was appointed to convene the Task Force of the Inter-Ministerial Committee responsible for implementation of the Plan. Ironically, given the absence of a Ministry with direct responsibility for Human Rights, sometimes I feel the informal committee we have does more work.

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