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South Africa and the UN Human Rights Council

This book provides a detailed analysis of South Africas actions on the UN Human Rights Council, examining the countrys positions on civil and political rights, economic rights and development, social groups whose rights are frequently violated, and abuses in specific countries.

The most detailed and comprehensive study of any countrys record on the UN Human Rights Council to date, this book demonstrates that despite occasional support for human rights, South Africas overall record ranged from opposing to failing to support human rights. This is compounded by an anti-Western or anti-imperial edge to South Africas positions on the UNHRC. Using South Africa as a study case of a liberal country consistently behaving illiberally, this book therefore challenges the widespread belief in international relations theory, typically found in liberal and constructivist thought, that there is an alignment of domestic political society and foreign policy values.

Addressing ongoing debates since the presidency of Nelson Mandela about the place of human rights in South Africas foreign policy, South Africa and the UN Human Rights Council will be useful to students and scholars of international relations, human rights, international law, and African politics.

Eduard Jordaan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa. His research focuses on human rights and the liberal international order.

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South Africa and the UN Human Rights Council

The Fate of the Liberal Order

Eduard Jordaan

First published 2020
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2020 Eduard Jordaan

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jordaan, Eduard, author.
Title: South Africa and the UN Human Rights Council: the fate of the
liberal order / Eduard Jordaan.
Description: New York: Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019032276 | ISBN 9781138609945 (hardback) |
ISBN 9780429465932 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: United Nations Human Rights Council. | Human rights
International cooperation. | Human rightsSouth Africa. |
South AfricaForeign relations21st century.
Classification: LCC JZ4974 .J67 2019 | DDC 341.48dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019032276

ISBN: 978-1-138-60994-5 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-46593-2 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Apex CoVantage, LLC

To Margaret, Faye, Gustav, and Rose

Contents

1. B1

Guide

In 2011, I decided, on a whim, to do research on South Africas actions at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). I am grateful to Singapore Management University for various grants that allowed me to travel to Geneva to conduct interviews and observe the HRC in action and to pay for research assistance. I am also grateful to Rhodes University, my current employer, for giving me funds to pay research assistants. I am deeply grateful to the wonderful students who have assisted along the way: Kamini Devadass, Gemma-Mae Hartley, and the late Marshall Nyaungwa. Marshall died unexpectedly in April 2019 I miss his optimism, the jokes we shared, and our awkward handshakes. Rest in peace.

Although this book does not draw on interviews, my understanding of the HRC owes much to what I learned during interviews for other research projects on the HRC. I am deeply grateful to the many diplomats, activists, UN employees, and academics for taking the time to speak to me.

At Taylor & Francis, I am deeply thankful to Simon Bates and Tan ShengBin. Thank you, Simon, for your support for this project ever since our first meeting in Singapore. Thank you also, Simon and ShengBin, for your patience and understanding after I missed one deadline after another. I am also grateful to Routledges anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.

I realise that not everyone is interested in the HRC. In disbelief, a student once asked me Is this what you do all day? after I had explained some aspect of the HRCs functioning to her class. I am therefore grateful to colleagues and friends who at least feigned interest while I told them about South Africas latest disgraceful action on the HRC.

Writing this book has come at a considerable cost time not spent with my wife, Margaret, and our three children, Faye, Gustav and Rose. I am sorry for the nights and weekends I spent working. You four are my world entire.

• ANC African National Congress
• AU African Union
• BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
• CERD Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
• CHR (UN) Commission on Human Rights
• DDPA Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
• DIRCO Department of International Relations and Cooperation (South Africa)
• DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo
• ECOSOC (UN) Economic and Social Council
• FGM Female genital mutilation
• G77 Group of 77
• GRULAC Latin American and Caribbean Group
• HIPC Heavily indebted poor countries
• HRC (UN) Human Rights Council
• IBSA India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum
• ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

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