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Andrew Gilmour, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights addresses the audience during an event at UN Headquarters in New York.
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Strong civil society can push back against 'major attack' on human rights, says senior UN rights official

19 October 2017
A senior United Nations human rights official has praised civil society for its role in standing up to the “backlash” against human rights.
High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

In Blaustein lecture, UN rights chief rebukes notion that multilateralism is a threat in today's world

19 October 2017
The United Nations human rights chief today called for spreading greater knowledge about human rights to its skeptics, rebuking perspectives that see global organizations and their international legal frameworks as part of a problem and not the solution.