UN Human Rights Council: Interview with Gianni Magazzeni

Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review a Powerful Tool on Driving Accountability

"There can be no peace without development and development without peace, and none of these without human rights." Gianni Magazzeni

How to ensure that Human Rights are protected and legislation adopted and applied, and how to make the UN Human Rights Council country-members accountable?

The Universal Periodic Review is a mechanism created in 2008, by the UN Human Rights Council, that established a process of review by country-members to evaluate, monitor, and assess compliance with International Human Rights Law. These are obligations that States that are signatories are bound to respect: the Geneva Conventions, and international treaties such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

The International Bill of Human Rights consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its two Optional Protocols.

The UN Brief interviewed Gianni M…