While We All Sleepwalk Into A Human Rights Vacuum, The United Nations Is Facing Its Moment of Truth

Humankind has faced greater challenges than the COVID-19 crisis. Indeed, we were already confronting a few of them as the world started to lockdown earlier this year. Now, more than ever, is the time we need a United Nations of purpose and resolve, writes Dr Lissa Johnson. During his speech at the opening of this year’s session of the UN General Assembly (GA), the Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, described “a world turned upside down”. He told attendees that, “the pillars of our world wobble on already shaky footings…. Those who built the United Nations 75 years ago had lived through a pandemic, a global depression, genocide and world war…. Today,” he said, “we face our own 1945 moment.”...