The UN Human Rights Council at 20: Credibility in Question

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay / BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, November 2 (IPS) – On 13 October, Burundi won a second consecutive term on the UN Human Rights Council, the UN’s main human rights body. The CIVICUS Monitor rates civic space in Burundi as closed, the worst category. Its government has spent years silencing civil society, critics and opposition parties, including through extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances and torture.

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