UN Human Rights Shaming and Foreign Aid Allocation


Adhikari B.
June 2021Springer Science and Business Media B.V.

Human Rights Review
2021#22Issue 2133 - 154 pp.

Does public condemnation or shaming of human rights abuses by the United Nations influence foreign aid delivery calculus across Western donor states? I argue that countries shamed in the United Nations Human Rights Council (formerly known as the United Nations Commission on Human Rights) encourage donor states to channel more aid via international and local non-governmental organizations. Furthermore, I find this effect to be more pronounced with increased media coverage. The findings of this paper suggest that international organizations do influence advanced democracies’ foreign policy. Moreover, the paper also finds that donor governments do not punish recipient leaders by scaling back on government-to-government aid, which is more fungible, despite public condemnations of their human rights practices owing largely to strategic concerns. These results are robust to a number of alternative data and estimation techniques.

Foreign aid , Naming and shaming , NGO and civil society assistance , UN Human Rights Council

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Department of Political Science and International Relations, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Department of Political Science and International Relations

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