Alfred de Zayas person
also: UN special representative, Alfred D. Zayas, De Zayas, D. Saez, De Salla
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in a building that originally housed the League of Nations. It was located in a plush area of Geneva. Anya encountered the people at the UN Human Rights Council in March 19, 2019, speaking alongside a UN special representative, Alfred D. Za…
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Meanwhile, used his speaking time to deliver a scorching indictment of the entire UN Human Rights Office, accusing its functionaries as violating the most fundamental principle of methodology in its approach to Venezuela. As a renowned spec…
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but had visited Venezuela himself in 2017 in his capacity as a UN special representative. Fluent in six languages, the dual U.S.-Swiss citizen spoke in very certain terms as he addressed the room in Geneva. We are swimming in an ocean of li…
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a humanitarian crisis. What he discovered was not that at all. That meant I had been manipulated, I had been lied to, and I resent that, he said. Though the situation D. Zayas observed in Venezuela was not nearly as dire as he anticipated, …
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as a legal scholar, primarily known for his contributions to the UN, where he used his senior position to argue in defense of other marginalized groups. De Salla's independent streak informed an unorthodox and at times controversial approac…
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Through academic reviews, including being published in the Cambridge Law Journal, praised his scholarship, saying that his documentation of crimes was second to none. One of D. Saez's loudest detractor was UN Watch, a Geneva-based organizat…
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Since its 1993 foundation, UN Watch served as Israel's most aggressive defender within the halls of the Human Rights Council, weaponizing its role as a so-called monitor to smear anyone that dares speak up against Palestinian rights or anyo…
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at the Human Rights officially condemned the lawyer's Venezuelan investigation on the basis that he had issued an independent version of what had happened in Germany. The UN Watch's bullying tactics was palpable during his own visit to the …