Commonwealth Proposals for the Depoliticization of Human Rights in the UN System

Abstract

"Violation of human rights" appears over and over again in the statements of Western countries accompanying the latest sanctions against the "regime" in Minsk. On 13 July, the UN HRC adopted another resolution on the human rights situation in Belarus, but the Belarusian Foreign Ministry stressed that if decisions were made objectively, "almost all Western countries should have received separate resolutions. Minsk suggests taking measures against the politicization of this topic at the UN. The purpose of this article is to show some proposals for depoliticizing human rights in the UN system.