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Human Rights: an endless battle (2009 Documentary on the U.N. debates)

"We thought we were going to attend a U.N. meeting and we witnessed a racist hate fest instead". Anti-Semitic slogans, flyers praising Hitler to come back from the dead, fundamentalist propaganda etc. These are images that have haunted many NGOs since the 2001 Durban Conference in South Africa. It all happened a week before 9/11. As the United States waged war against terrorism and deserted UN regulations, Asian and African states took hold of the majority in the new Human Rights Council created in 2006. For the first time, a documentary explains the inner workings of Geneva’s UN premises. The documentary seeks to get to the bottom of what became of the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights. What we discover there seems very far from the miraculous consensus orchestrated by Eleanor Roosevelt 60 years ago. Nowadays, the Council hosts a direct confrontation between two visions of the world. Dictatorships and authoritarian states lecturing the few democracies present in the Assembly. As Robert Badinter - the father of death penalty’s abolition in France - puts it: "the question of human rights once more became an ideological battlefield". Words become crushing weapons in this new Assembly. Should we forbid the defamation of religions in order to combat racism at an international level? Or would this be a regressive measure, instead shielding restrictive religious customs from necessary criticism? This is a very sensitive issue on the eve of the Second Durban Conference, with America and European countries threatening to boycott the process. Subscribe to wocomoDOCS for more documentaries in full length: http://bit.ly/21RApvv Directors: Caroline Fourest & Fiametta Venner Duration: 52' Year: 2009 Producer: Daniel Leconte