The recent conclusions to the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly has recalled a rather unsettling situation, where a UN Special Rapporteur has been refused entry on sensitive ideological/political grounds having made supportable submissions on the factual situations in the region. On March 26, 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a special investigator on Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories. Falk replaces South African professor John Dugard, an expert on apartheid who will leave his post in June 2008 after seven years. On 25 August 2008, Falk presented his first … Continue reading UN Special Rapporteur submits first report despite being barred from entering the OPT