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Another one bites the dust — what future for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights?

by David Petrasek and Geneva Blog, Blog, By invitation, International human rights institutions, mechanisms and processes

The early departure — yet again — of a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights suggests it’s time to re-think the office’s priorities and strengthen its mandate. The announcement in December 2017 by Prince Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein of Jordan that he would not seek a second term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights—leaving the post in the middle of 2018—came …