While UN figures show child marriage is heavily concentrated in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the campaign’s imagery has prompted accusations of distortion.
The United Nations Human Rights Council removed Abbas Araghchi from the list of speakers at its February 23 opening session after civil society initiatives collected more than 100,000 signatures opposing his participation.
The UN’s special rapporteurs are all appointed by the Human Rights Council, and the people who are chosen are those whose main interest is to condemn the West, colonialism, and capitalism.
By pulling the United States out of 66 international bodies, Donald Trump is turning rhetoric into action—and challenging the global system that has dominated since the Cold War.
