UN Member Countries Should Resist Defunding of Human Rights
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The Fifth Committee of the 77th General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, October 3, 2022.
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Countries hostile toward United Nations human rights bodies have in recent years sought to hijack negotiations at the UN General Assembly’s Fifth Committee, which oversees the organization’s budget. Their evident goal is to deny funding to investigations of human rights abuses and laws-of-war violations mandated by UN legislative bodies.
Those efforts surged this year.
A Fifth Committee working document states that Sudan proposed the total defunding of a fact-finding mission established by the UN Human Rights Council in October to investigate all human rights and humanitarian law …read more
Source:: Human Rights Watch
