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Rosa Freedman, Failing to Protect: The UN and the Politicisation of Human Rights, London, Hurst, 2014, 224 pp., ISBN 9781849044097, (paperback) £16.99

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2015

Ruth Houghton
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 171 - 175
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3 ‘Press Briefing Notes on Thailand’ (United Nations Human Rights, 5 August 2014) <www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=14918&LangID=E> accessed 18 August 2014.

4 P. Alston, ‘Reconceiving the UN Human Rights Regime: Challenges Confronting the New UN Human Rights Council’, (2006) 7 Melbourne Journal of International Law 185, at 187.

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8 Alston, P., ‘Against a World Court for Human Rights’ (2014) 28 (2)Ethics & International Affairs 197Google Scholar, at 197.

9 Ibid., at 206.