by Ariel Kahana
Yuval Shany, a renowned expert on international humanitarian law and human rights, has served on panel that reviews U.N. members' adherence to rights charter since 2013
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Professor
Yuval Shany from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Law
has been selected to chair the United Nations Human Rights
Committee. While Israelis have served on the committee in the past,
Shany is the first Israeli to head the Geneva-based committee.
Not to be confused with the infamously anti-Israel U.N. Human Rights Council,
the U.N. Human Rights Committee comprises a panel of experts that
monitors member states' compliance with the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights.
Shany is a renowned expert in the field of
international humanitarian law and human rights. He has served as a
member of the U.N. committee since 2013.
"I am very happy members of the U.N. Human
Rights Committee have decided to choose me for the position of
chairperson," Shany said in a statement.
"Unlike the U.N. Human Rights Council, the
Human Rights Committee is a professional, nonpolitical body, which
objectively examines the manner in which the countries of the world
implement their obligations under the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights."
Shany said the committee faces many
challenges, "especially in the face of an international environment that
does not support human rights as it has done in the past." He said it
was his hope that "as chair of the committee, I will be able to advance
reforms that will help the committee operate in a more efficient manner,
and increase its positive influence on the global reality."
Ariel Kahana
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/07/04/in-first-israeli-chosen-to-head-un-human-rights-committee/
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