Blue UN helmets waiting for their deployment. (Shutterstock)
Highlights
A key reason for the UN’s failure to protect human rights is politicization according to many human rights activists.
Whether the UNHRC should, or should not exist depends on who you ask! It’s doubtful it would make any difference to the children of Yemen or Palestine who have heard no whisper of human rights as they waste away from hunger and malnutrition as a result of an endless and pernicious war.
A key reason for the UN’s failure to protect human rights is politicization according to many human rights activists. Iran was itself a victim of this, during the imposed 8-year war of the 1980s with Baathist Iraq.
The untold tragedy of Iraq s Shia Turkmen women abducted by Islamic State
Like the Yazidis, hundreds were captured and killed by the militant group in 2014. But families, community leaders and officials have turned a blind eye
A Yazidi woman and her children who were captured by IS but escaped. Unlike with the Yazidis, no major efforts have been made to free Shia Turkmen women (Reuters) By Published date: 18 February 2021 11:44 UTC | Last update: 4 days 1 hour ago
The efforts to free Yazidi women and children abducted by the Islamic State (IS) group have brought worldwide support and attention, and won one of their number the Nobel Peace Prize.