Tom
Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC)
Hearing
**REVISED
(1) – Witness Added**
The
United States Government’s Relationship with the U.N. Human
Rights Council
Tuesday,
October 25, 2011
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cannon HOB 210
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cannon HOB 210
Please
join the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for a hearing on
the United States government’s relationship with the United
Nations Human Rights Council.
The
United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHR Council) is
comprised of 47 member states whose representation is
apportioned equitably among all geographic regions. The
council was established in March 2006 as a successor to the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which had been
widely criticized for ineffectiveness and bias. The United
States initially opposed the new body, doubting that any
significant changes would come from a new structure. The U.S.
government announced that it would not seek a seat on the
council, and that its engagement with and funding for the
council would be limited. In 2009, however, the U.S.
government decided to run for a seat on the council, won the
election, and joined the council that May. Since then, the
U.S. government has actively advanced its human rights agenda
at the council as well as challenged and mitigated the
entity’s shortcomings.
This
hearing will examine the current interaction between the U.S.
government and the UNHR Council. Both U.S. government and NGO
witnesses will outline successes, identify problems, and
propose solutions to advance U.S. human rights and foreign
policy interests at the UNHR Council.
The
following witnesses have been invited to testify:
Panel I
· Suzanne
Nossel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International
Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State
· Dan
Baer, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human
Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State (ADDED)
Panel
II
· Ted
Piccone, Senior Fellow and Deputy Directory, Foreign Policy,
Brookings Institution
· Peggy
Hicks, Global Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch
If
you have any questions, please contact Colleen Costello (Rep.
McGovern) or Wendy Sneff (Rep. Wolf) at 202-225-3599, or send
an email to tlhrc@mail.house.gov.
Sincerely,
ျမန္မာအစိုးရစစ္တပ္မွ ေဒသခံအျပစ္မဲ႕ရြာသားမ်ားအား ရက္စက္စြာ၊နွိပ္စက္၊ သတ္ျဖတ္သြားသည္ကို ဤကဲ႕သို႕ျမင္ရ
ျမန္မာအစိုးရစစ္တပ္မွ ေဒသခံအျပစ္မဲ႕ရြာသားမ်ားအား ရက္စက္စြာ၊နွိပ္စက္၊ သတ္ျဖတ္သြားသည္ကို ဤကဲ႕သို႕ျမင္ရ
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