Perspective: Charges of human rights hypocrisy at World Cup are rooted in history
This pattern — of loud highlighting of abuses in the run-up to an event, followed by relative silence — has been seen during the world cups in South Africa, Brazil and Russia, as well. In 2020, on German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, founding director of FairSquare
After 1945, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights — chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt — debated the meaning of human rights within an emerging international system centered on the new United Nations. The horrors of the Holocaust diverted attention specifically to the role of the state in human rights abuses — focusing on what states would be permitted and forbidden to do under an international framework.
Yet the colonized world steadily liberated itself as the European empires collapsed. The United Nations grew from 51 members in 1945 to 127 members in 1970. Most were former subjects of European imperialism. New postcolonial states steadily took a larger role in U.N. discussions, particularly around human rights.In the 1960s, internationalizing discussions on race and colonialism gained steam as the UNCHR debated whether to condemn all forms of racism.
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