Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
2-2014
Abstract
This article assesses South Africa's foreign policy commitment to human rights, by studying the country's role in the United Nations Human Rights Council, which began its work in 2006. South Africa's behavior is evaluated in terms of its participation in four aspects of the Council's work: the institution-building phase that took place during the body's first year, country-specific human rights issues, thematic human rights problems, and the Universal Periodic Review. It is concluded that, South Africa has become a defender of unpalatable regimes and an obstacle to the international promotion of human rights.
Keywords
human rights, foreign policy, local elections, South Africa
Discipline
Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Human Rights Quarterly
Volume
36
Issue
1
First Page
90
Last Page
122
ISSN
0275-0392
Identifier
10.1353/hrq.2014.0007
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Citation
JORDAAN, Eduard.(2014). South Africa and the United Nations Human Rights Council. Human Rights Quarterly, 36(1), 90-122.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1166
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2014.0007