In a video Op-Ed in the NYT of 6 May 2019, former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, argues that world leaders are weak, shortsighted and mediocre, and no longer willing or able to defend human rights. Abuses used to be called out and stopped, and human rights offenders had something to fear. Today, they are met with silence instead. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2014 to 2018.
Previously he spent 18 years as a diplomat helping to establish the International Criminal Court and serving on the Security Council. He is now the Distinguished Global Leader in Residence at the Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania.
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This entry was posted on May 9, 2019 at 11:46 and is filed under films, Human Rights Defenders, OHCHR.
Tags: global leadership, international human rights system, New York Times, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid, video clip, Zeid Bin Raad al-Husseini
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