Israeli will chair the UN Human Rights Committee J-Wire

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Yuval Shany, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, been chosen to lead the human rights of the United Nations. Committee.

Yuval Shany

The Human Rights Committee (and not the Human Rights Council from which the United States withdrew on June 20, 2018) is a group of people. independent experts monitoring the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

This is the first time in history that an Israeli will lead the committee.

"Currently, the UN Human Rights Committee faces a number of challenges, mainly the fact that we live in an international climate rights." As head of the committee, I said: hopes to leverage its positive and apolitical influence to secure the human rights of all citizens of the world, "said Shany.

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