2 months ago
The Diplomat
The UPR, while a symbolic process, may point to real concerns that India’s closest security partners may have. To be clear, it’s hard to take the UNHRC, a forum that includes the world’s worst human rights offenders, seriously, and even more so because the Council has no enforcement mechanisms for human rights. Moreover, South Korea, which looks to deepen its own cooperation with the Quad, also raised concerns about India’s human rights record at the UPR. And, despite the enduring fallacy that governments must choose between human rights and national security, India’s security partners can pursue deeper cooperation without losing sight of human rights. Certainly, as India’s UPR demonstrated, Japanese, Australian, American, and Korean diplomats may have the appetite to push India on its human rights.
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