Since its founding, the UN Human Rights Council has been both praised as an indispensable platform in which to promote human rights, and criticized as a compromised body that fails to hold perpetrators to account. What have been the Council’s most impressive achievements and most disappointing failures when it comes to defending human rights? At a time when human dignity and liberty are under assault and in retreat in many parts of the world, what more can the United States and like-minded governments do to ensure that the Council lives up to its potential and advances the principles on which it was founded?
Please join us for a conversation with Michèle Taylor, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, and Sarah Yager, Washington Director at Human Rights Watch. Carnegie Senior Fellow Stewart Patrick, Director of the Global Order and Institutions Program, will moderate the discussion.