{"id":89,"date":"2008-07-05T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2008\/07\/05\/departing-rights-official-raised-volume-on-issues\/"},"modified":"2008-07-05T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T19:00:00","slug":"departing-rights-official-raised-volume-on-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2008\/07\/05\/departing-rights-official-raised-volume-on-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Departing Rights Official Raised Volume on Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">True, she has no illusions that human rights abuses are on the wane. She also says plainly that the 47 members of the United Nations Human Rights Council often use it as a forum for pushing national or regional interests rather than defending people against assorted horrors<\/span>   <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Nonetheless, Ms. Arbour, 61, a former Supreme Court judge in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Canada<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\"> and, before that, the chief prosecutor of the United Nations tribunals for war crimes in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Yugoslavia<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Rwanda<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">, said she saw some progress<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\">&quot;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">It&#8217;s a small miracle to see how far we have come since the 50 years of silence after Nuremberg,&quot; she said, referring to the trials of Nazi war criminals after World War II. &quot;All things considered, in human rights law we have achieved more in the past 15 years than in the previous 50 in taking personal criminal accountability to where it is now<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.&quot;<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">In the view of some human rights groups, Ms. Arbour can share credit for this. Although she had no powers to punish abusers, she sharpened the profile of the high commissioner&#8217;s office, not only by almost doubling its annual budget to nearly $100 million and widening its presence in the field, but also by persistently raising her own voice<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Amnesty International said that Ms. Arbour, who formally left the job on Monday, had been a champion for human rights and that replacing her would not be easy. Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, is expected to announce her successor shortly<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said Ms. Arbour had been principled and outspoken. In a telephone interview from <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">New York<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">, he added, &quot;Our hope is that the next commissioner not be excessively inclined to practice quiet diplomacy when outspokenness is called for<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.&quot; <\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">That said, Ms. Arbour&#8217;s forthright views have angered many governments and interest groups. This year, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Zimbabwe<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">&#8216;s justice minister, Patrick Chinamasa, said Ms. Arbour had turned her office into a &quot;deified oracle which spews out edicts we all must follow.&quot; Some supporters of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Israel<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\"> have called her an idiot<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>. <\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">The Bush administration, too, has objected to her frequent complaints about its use of torture, secret arrests and disregard of international law as part of the campaign against terrorism<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Yet Ms. Arbour herself does not regard naming-and-shaming as the high commissioner&#8217;s most effective tool. On one of the last days in her office on the banks of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Lake Geneva<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">, Ms. Arbour sounded almost defensive about sometimes using quiet diplomacy<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>. <\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\">&quot;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">On my travels, I can see presidents and prime ministers and foreign ministers,&quot; she said. &quot;A lot of nongovernmental organizations don&#8217;t have this kind of access. But that calls for a different tone of interaction. There&#8217;s no point in screaming if you cannot compel anything<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.&quot;<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">She has, however, pressed her way into places like refugee camps and prisons, to the discomfort of her official hosts<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\">&quot;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">She&#8217;d ask to see political prisoners or rape victims,&quot; said Scott Campbell, an aide who has often traveled with her. &quot;It&#8217;s difficult to say no to Louise Arbour<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.&quot;<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Some have said no. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">North Korea<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Myanmar<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\"> refused to let her in. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">China<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\"> said she was always welcome, but recently, when she wanted to travel to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Tibet<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">, she was told it was not the right time. She visited <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Sri Lanka<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">, but the government would not let her open a field office there<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Pakistan<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\"> kept postponing her trip, finally offering her a date three days before she was to leave office. She accepted. Last week, she admonished the country&#8217;s president, Pervez Musharraf, and other high-ranking officials about human rights issues, including &quot;disappearances&quot; and the lack of judiciary independence<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">But it is what she calls &quot;a very serious erosion&quot; of safeguards against human rights abuses in the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">United States<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\"> that has haunted her work<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>. <\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">In many countries, Ms. Arbour said, when she raises human rights concerns with a president or prime minister: &quot;I can write the script. The first response I get is, &lsquo;Why aren&#8217;t you in Guant&aacute;namo? Why are you coming here<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>?&#8217; &quot; <\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">But, she added, when she had admonished the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">United States<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">, she had heard the opposing view. &quot;I recently had a meeting with a group of Congressional aides,&quot; she said, &quot;and they complained, &lsquo;Why aren&#8217;t you criticizing <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Myanmar<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\"> instead of spending your time criticizing the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">United States<\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>?&#8217; &quot; <\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">In <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Geneva<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\"> itself, pure politics often seem to dominate the Human Rights Council, which in 2006 replaced the politicized United Nations Commission on Human Rights<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Ms. Arbour said she welcomed the council&#8217;s new policy under which every country&#8217;s human rights record would be examined every four years, but she lamented regular attempts in the council to gain control of her office<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">The council&#8217;s work has often been paralyzed and distorted by regional groups, notably the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the African group, which not only have focused overwhelmingly on <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">Israel<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">&#8216;s treatment of Palestinians but also have blocked discussion of such topics as sexual identity, female genital cutting and so-called honor killings<span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\" dir=\"rtl\">&quot;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma\">It seems to me that anything that is related to full gender equality is a fundamental human right,&quot; Ms. Arbour said. &quot;But the dictates of culture or religion or tradition are often put forward as clashing with that. 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