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While the Human Rights Commission's role is to promote human rights, this documentary shows that the UN's HRC has become so politicized that its effectiveness has been lost. The governing body of the HRC includes well-known human rights' violators, such as China, Libya, Syria and Sudan, and with countries like China routinely using its political and economic clout to manipulate voting and deflect criticism, the HRC's doing the opposite for which it was established. Here we hear from the former HR Commissioner, Mary Robinson, who speaks candidly of her deep frustration with the world body; also from London-based lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, who feels the UN should shut the HRC down.
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