‘It’s an ongoing battle’: Bob Rae’s push to move the needle on human rights at the UN

'You don't stop trying to find ways of resolving differences in opinion, but I do think in this day and age you need a whole range of ways of expressing concern and trying to move opinion,' says Bob Rae.

In the early months of his new UN posting, Ambassador Bob Rae gave an impassioned speech defending the universality of human rights and Canada's ability to speak on issues despite its own human rights concerns. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

October 21, 2020

Just months into his new posting as Canada's top diplomat at the United Nations, Bob Rae isn't backing down from raising Canada's human rights concerns. As Michelle Bachelet, the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, warned the General Assembly this month that there has been “profound, multi-f...

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