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Another criticism was that the Commission did not engage in constructive discussion of human rights issues, but was a forum for politically selective finger-pointing and criticism. The desire of states with problematic human rights records to be elected to the Commission was viewed largely as a way to defend themselves from such attacks.
In 2004, former Israeli ambassador to the UN Dore Gold published a book called Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos.The book argued that the organization’s approach to issues like genocide and terrorism showed a lack of consistent moral clarity, which occurred between the moral clarity of its founding period and the present day. [1]
This drew criticism from the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the ineffectiveness of UNHRC, saying it had fallen short of its obligations. He urged countries to "drop rhetoric" and rise above "partisan posturing and regional divides" [ 232 ] and get on with defending people around the world.
UNHCR presently has major missions in Lebanon, South Sudan, Chad/Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kenya to assist and provide services to IDPs and refugees in camps and in urban settings. UNHCR maintains a database of refugee information, ProGres, which was created during the Kosovo War in the 1990s. The database ...
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UNHCR's office in Cairo has a past of using a very limited interpretation of the refugee definition outlined in the 1951 Refugee Convention. Although most of the Sudanese in Egypt fled due to war and violence, many had rejected refugee status because they were unable to prove a "well-founded fear of persecution". [ 12 ]
The UK, Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands, in particular, have witnessed a notable presence of the Iraqi diaspora (with the Netherlands hosting refugees since the Gulf War of 1991). However, Europe's response to the refugee crisis caused by the US-led invasion of Iraq has drawn widespread criticism from the UNHCR. The organization has ...
The UNHCR document provides the following guidance regarding the interpretation of the protected characteristic approach: A particular social group is a group of persons who share a common characteristic other than their risk of being persecuted, or who are perceived as a group by society.