Tag: UNHRC

International Human Rights Day, 2019 — a wake-up and a warning

DemDigest December 10, 2019

European Union Foreign Ministers have reportedly used the occasion of International Human Rights Day to approve an EU Magnitsky Act after Hungary dropped its objections. The EU has been considering… Read more »

How to keep the human rights high ground

DemDigest March 14, 2017

The U.S. is threatening to withdraw from the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council if it does not undertake “considerable reform,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned a group of nine… Read more »