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November 10th, 2009

Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe to be nominated US ambassador to UN Human Rights Council

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CISAC Affiliate Donahoe is to be nominated to a key post in Obama administration, the White House announced Nov. 9. Read more »



December 12th, 2006

Iraq teaches nothing about intervention in Darfur, CISAC scholar writes

Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on November 6, 2006

With Darfur in the news, commentators are looking to Iraq to find reasons against military intervention to stop the genocide in western Sudan. But Iraq is not an example of humanitarian intervention, CISAC visiting scholar Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe explains. A better way to decide whether to intervene in Darfur, she suggests, is to follow guidelines developed from just-war theory and set forth in a report by the U.N. High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change.




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UN council affirms support for Internet freedom
“This outcome is momentous for the Human Rights Council,” said Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe. “It’s the first ever UN resolution affirming that human rights in the digital realm must be protected and promoted to the same extent and with the same commitment as human rights in the physical world.”
July 5, 2012 in The Hill (blog)

The US Pressures Iran on Human Rights
In Geneva, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, the US representative to the Council is a superstar. She is the face of US human rights in town, a master of building coalitions and cooperation with different partners to make things happen.
May 20, 2011 in Huffington Post (blog)

UN Human Rights Council Condemns Syrian Violence
Michele Norris interviews Ambassador Eileen Donahoe, the United States representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council, about the council's meeting regarding Syria. She says the action by the international community sends a strong message to the Syrian government that it cannot mistreat its people ...
April 29, 2011 in NPR

UN Rights Council to hold special session on Libya
"It's an excellent signal that the council was able to react in real time to a situation," US Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe said. In a strong stance against the violence that has engulfed Libya in the last eight days, at least 53 UN states ...
February 24, 2011 in Jerusalem Post