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Deborah Brown is the first Leo Nevas Human Rights Fellow of the UNA-USA, a program of the United Nations Foundation (UNF). She advocates for and supports constructive U.S. engagement with the UN and its human rights mechanisms. She has lived and worked in the Middle East to strengthen civil society and governance in the region. Deborah holds a master’s degree from Georgetown University in Democracy and Governance and Arab Studies and a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College in Political Science and Human Rights.

A Cautious Embrace of Internet Freedom at the UN Human Rights Council

By Deborah Brown | Mar 15, 2012

It's not every day that an Al-Jazeera journalist moderates a United Nations meeting or that Google finds itself in an interactive dialogue with China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. But this is precisely what happened on February 29, when the UN Human Rights Council held its first-ever debate on freedom of expression on the Internet in Geneva.

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Kicking the Human Rights Council While It’s Up

By Deborah Brown | Oct 13, 2011

The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is likely to come under harsh attack on Thursday with the mark up of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s (R-FL) “UN Reform Bill,” which would withhold all funding to the HRC unless reforms concerning the body’s membership criteria and agenda are met.

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