"We thought we were going to attend a U.N. meeting and we witnessed a racist hate fest instead". Anti-Semitic slogans, flyers praising Hitler to come back from the dead, fundamentalist propaganda etc. These are images that have haunted many NGOs since the 2001 Durban Conference in South Africa. It all happened a week before 9/11. As the United States waged war against terrorism and deserted UN regulations, Asian and African states took hold of the majority in the new Human Rights Council created in 2006. For the first time, a documentary explains the inner workings of Geneva’s UN premises. The documentary seeks to get to the bottom of what became of the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights. What we discover there seems very far from the miraculous consensus orchestrated by Eleanor Roosevelt 60 years ago. Nowadays, the Council hosts a direct confrontation between two visions of the world. Dictatorships and authoritarian states lecturing the few democracies present in the Assembly. As Robert Badinter - the father of death penalty’s abolition in France - puts it: "the question of human rights once more became an ideological battlefield". Words become crushing weapons in this new Assembly. Should we forbid the defamation of religions in order to combat racism at an international level? Or would this be a regressive measure, instead shielding restrictive religious customs from necessary criticism? This is a very sensitive issue on the eve of the Second Durban Conference, with America and European countries threatening to boycott the process. Subscribe to wocomoDOCS for more documentaries in full length: http://bit.ly/21RApvv Directors: Caroline Fourest & Fiametta Venner Duration: 52' Year: 2009 Producer: Daniel Leconte
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great documentary but please work on your audio. When you dub over other speakers, you should lower their volume a bit more, sounds like two people shouting in my ear
why dub over english speaking? It confused me as for whose speaking what.
Excellent documentary! Thanks for sharing it.
Hoy para baya nis assignment namo, pero wajud koy nasabtan. Tarongag edit oy
Good thing the USA left the Council. Hopefully the rest of the Western nations will follow suit to show what an utter joke the Human Rights Council has become.
This is a "documentary"?! very narrow sided and bias. Like that lost all credibility.
utterly useless....
My parents always hurt me and if I report them I’ll go to prison I can’t feel safe at my own house I can’t defend my self or anything
it’d be nice to deceasing the background volumes when speaking in monologues. it’s irritating to hear the speeches overlap like in the translation clips
very interesting but lower the voices of ppl while the author is talking
please provide subtitle
Can't hear a damn thing
Wala akong naintindihan
i like this documentary
This documentary has great potential, but the audio is making it virtually impossible to understand who's saying what to whom, not to mention how uncomfortable it is to have music blaring in my ears. Subtitles would have been great.
basin nangita mog tig gamag subtitle
nice XD
so disturbing when two speakers talking at the same time... another thing is, where is the power of the human rights? there is ongoing human rights violation by Indonesia in West Papua but nothing happened to stopped it. why????? where are the major powers? or is there any conflict of interest somewhere?,,,
The Saudi regime must stop the massive beheadings against people, give more freedom to their women, leave the war against Yemen, liberate and allow freedoms to activists, stop persecuting homosexuals and abolish the death penalty.