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Critical analysis of South Africa's Human Rights diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council 2007-2008
Mini Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/65577 Critical analysis of South Africa's Human Rights diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council 2007-2008 Mbete, Sithembile u17402434@tuks.co.za Manku, Koketso Makgarietja Patience UCTD Mini Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017. At the dawn of democracy, South Africa emerged as a human rights champion across the globe. The Nelson Mandela presidency is often referred to as a human rights crusade era. South Africa signing and ratifying international human rights instruments. Even during this human rights crusade era, South Africa experienced hiccups in terms of its human rights position. However, criticism reached a peak during South Africa’s first term of 2007-2008 in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) under Mbeki presidency. The country’s decisions to block adoption of two draft Resolutions to sanction Zimbabwe and Myanmar became central cases used to question the country’s commitment to human rights initially articulated by Nelson Mandela. It is argued that South Africa failed to uphold its constitutional principles and the obligation to protect human rights globally. This study seeks to engage the literature critically to argue that South Africa’s human rights status cannot be sufficiently measured through the conduct of the country in the UNSC, an organ characterised by misuse of the human rights concept and abuse of power by three permanent members including United State, United Kingdom and France. The study defends an argument that South Africa has not neglected human rights, However, was a victim of the institutional imbalance of the UNSC, which created the incentive for South Africa to pursue conditional cooperation. Although Article 62 of the UN Charter explicitly allocates competency in human rights questions to United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). This study is built on a conceptual framework and uses UNSC as the unit of analysis because the organ shares an implicit responsibility for the protection of human rights as human rights issues related to international peace and security. Political Sciences MA Unrestricted 2018-07-16T07:53:45Z 2018-07-16T07:53:45Z 2018/04/12 2017 Mini Dissertation Manku, KMP 2017, Critical analysis of South Africa's Human Rights diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council 2007-2008, MA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65577> A2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65577 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Critical analysis of South Africa's Human Rights diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council 2007-2008 |
| title | Critical analysis of South Africa's Human Rights diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council 2007-2008 |
| title_full | Critical analysis of South Africa's Human Rights diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council 2007-2008 |
| title_fullStr | Critical analysis of South Africa's Human Rights diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council 2007-2008 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Critical analysis of South Africa's Human Rights diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council 2007-2008 |
| title_short | Critical analysis of South Africa's Human Rights diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council 2007-2008 |
| title_sort | critical analysis of south africa s human rights diplomacy in the united nations security council 2007 2008 |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65577 |