Human Rights Officials at AJC's Jacob Blaustein Institute Event Call for Greater UN Attention to Combating Anti-Semitism
GENEVA, July 3, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC's Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights (JBI) convened a meeting of key UN human rights leaders and staff members together with experts on anti-Semitism from around the world.
- GENEVA, July 3, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC's Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights (JBI) convened a meeting of key UN human rights leaders and staff members together with experts on anti-Semitism from around the world.
- Addressing the group, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein affirmed that the UN's human rights expert mechanisms have historically "underserved" victims of anti-Semitism and called on the UN system to "do its part" to rectify the problem.
- Participants affirmed the need for UN human rights experts to speak out about governments' obligations to adopt proactive measures to prevent and combat anti-Semitism.
- He is the Deputy Director of the Essex Human Rights Centre in the United Kingdom and previously served as UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran and as Foreign Minister of the Maldives.