You can read an excerpt from Rosa’s latest book, Failing to Protect: The UN and the Politicisation of Human Rights at the IntLawGrrls blog.
“On 17th March 2008, I witnessed Mr Gibreil Hamid, a refugee from Darfur, addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council. Mr Hamid’s statement to the Council was brief. He mentioned three incidents within a conflict that had already claimed 200,000 lives and displaced two million people. Mr Hamid’s hands remained steady as he talked, but his eyes flickered nervously as he addressed people who were supposed to hold power to end such atrocities. Concisely and precisely, he told the Council how a report delivered earlier in the day demonstrated that ‘the Government of Sudan is violating human rights and international humanitarian law, with physical assaults, abductions and rape.’”
The book was launched in May 2014 at an event jointly hosted by Berwin Leighton Paisner solicitors and the UK Human Rights Blog.