While the United Nations Human Rights Council is a well-intentioned body of the United Nations meant to strengthen the promotion and protection of human rights violations and make recommendations on them, it faces its biggest obstacles which prevent it from accomplishing these goals through the politicization on the entity to a great extent.

How The UK Finally Lost Its 70 Year Membership In The International Court Of Justice It is a step in the right direction for the international community, as it reflects a shift in power at the UN away from the Security Council.

After the end of the 23-year-old civil war in Sri Lanka between the government and the Tamil Tigers and other ethnic minority separatist groups, a human rights organization decided that both the separatist groups and the government of Sri Lanka perpetrated human rights violations, some even counting up to the charge of war crimes. Following the report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations, the Human Rights Council took up the matter drafting a resolution that was co-sponsored by the United States, Britan, and other nations, including Sri Lanka itself.

Nikolas Cruz, the man that shot and killed 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the deadliest mass shooting since 2012, had purchased his gun legally despite the fact that both school officials, peers, and others had informed law enforcement officials that he may have been unstable.

President Trump boasted earlier this month that he would be more than happy to engage in an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of the investigation into possible ties between his associates and Russia’s election interference, and whether he obstructed justice. Now it is being learned that President Trump’s lawyers and most of his advisers are cautioning him against this step.

What To Expect Of The Second Government Shutdown The same issues once again.

“A White House statement confirmed the order had been signed to resist the detention facility's closure, and affirmed the administration's right to detain enemy combatants when necessary. 'Terrorists are not merely criminals. They are unlawful enemy combatants. And when captured overseas, they should be treated like the terrorists they are,' Mr. Trump said during Tuesday's speech.”

The report, released by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, was initially supposed to be released coinciding with Trump's second executive order known as the 'Muslim Ban' in order to legitimize it but for some reason was delayed. Even the current release date of the report seems less than coincidental, as the Trump administration attempts to create immigration policy and prevent a government shutdown.

How Much Of "Fire And Fury" Should Be Believed? Not entirely false, probably not entirely true.

The strengthening of rights is not a process that can be linked to single causations, but rather interweaving strands of a rope. According to the Chicago Journal of International Law: “What pulls human rights forward is not a series of separate, parallel cords, but a 'rope' of multiple, interwoven strands. Remove one strand, and the entire rope is weakened. International human rights law is a strand woven throughout the length of the rope. Its main value is not in how much rights protection it can pull as a single strand, but in how it strengthens the entire rope.” This hypothesis can be most accurately proven by anecdotal evidence. However, empirical evidence is challenging to construct in this kind of analysis due to the complexities involved, and its habit of often misrepresenting reality. But this should not be seen as detrimental to the argument, let alone proof that the international human rights law has failed.

Is it possible that this visually grim depiction is not accurate or representative of reality? At face value, the empirical data presented seems to comply with the central claims put forth by those that argue that advancement in human rights respect has stalled. But there lies a foundational issue with most data presented in this matter, which is an issue that lies in origin. According to an article for Foreign Policy: “The problem is that the rules used to do this summarizing have remained more or less consistent over time, but the reports themselves have not. Over the past four decades, the human rights reporting process and the international legal context in which that reporting occurs have both changed significantly." The biggest change has been that these organizations are now much more aware of the violations taking place; the more you know, the worse things look.

This came to fuller light after Monday's press brief at the White House when Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that "bias in news reports has gotten 'out of control' and 'should be taken seriously,' dismissing journalists who attributed recent errors to honest mistakes that were corrected." Huckabee added that these were not honest claims but rather that the news networks were purposely putting out false and inaccurate reports and statements with malicious intent.

The Forcible Deportation Of An Afghan Asylum Seeker With Trump's constant rhetoric among his supporters of the antagonism and fear of refugees, it's important to remember not to group people with the very groups by which they have been victimized, violated, and threatened.

After Pakistan’s Law Minister allegedly changed a reference to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that the Pakistani oath lawmakers must take, something he claims to be a clerical mistake, he was declared by the mobs as being guilty of blasphemy. As protests erupted in Islamabad last weekend, killing 2 and injuring over 250, incited by none other than the Tehreek-e Laibbaik Pakistan. The group formed after a man shot a Punjabi governor over his criticisms of Pakistan’s vague blasphemy laws, essentially laws that make it illegal to insult Islam (but in reality, these laws do far more than that, as the definition of ‘insult’ is vaguely interpreted). The group has blocked a highway in the capital of Islamabad and is conducting protests throughout the country that are quickly turning violent.

Why The 'War On Terrorism' Really Shouldn't Be Seen As A War Counter-terrorism strategies under the war framework are ineffective.

What The UN Needs To Improve With The Protection Of The Environment In Areas Of Armed Conflict In any attempt to rebuild war-torn nations and regions, environmental preservation and natural resources play vital roles.

In "Hated in the Nation," the final episode of the third season of "Black Mirror" lies an important, if unnecessary, blatant and unsubtle message. The final episode of the show details the investigation of a detective in relation to the mysterious and odd death of a journalist, whose husband claims that she slit her own throat with a broken piece of glass. But before delving into the details, a little bit of background: In this futuristic world, bees have become extinct and to compensate for this the government has allowed the creation of artificially intelligent bees, robot bees, which function essentially the same way in terms of pollination. Now back to the story, inside the woman’s head, following an autopsy, one of these bees is found. Essentially the bee had lodged itself into the pain center of the woman’s brain and caused such