Review of the book “The International Human Rights Regime and the Global South”, by Durval De Noronha Goyos Junior.

Good morning Doc, apologies for the delay here goes

I arrived in Brazil towards the end of October 1998 after completion of my tour of duty in Mauritious. Brazil therefore felt like an expansive new world, the enormity of the population and sheer size of the its landmass was an opposite as you could get.

As the first Ambassador of the newly established democratic republic of South Africa, the task of building a new course of diplomatic relations with this country and its people was as enormous as its scale.

One of the key areas was to understand its relevance to the world, its geo political global impact and strategic role to the globalising South. Dr. Noronha was an important introduction, he proved to be an important prism through which the task of alliance in constructing both bilateral and multilateral relations would be critical

As a consumate professional lawyer he had a profound grasp of international law, national states obligations and relations of states in the global configuration of power. His writtings in various books and journals were not only prolific and incisive but provided practical comprehension and guide to legal environ as new international instruments were being negotiated.

Noronha was and continues to be an astute legal scholar and eagle, but a social activist who guided new constructs in ordering regional and multilateral relations. His writings about Mercusur, UN, SADC, WTO and many other fields provide d a useful and indespensible guide to repositioning of the concept of South South cooperation.

The world will do well to reference Dr. Noronha’ s work in deconstructing the polarity of global economic relations evidenced historically and in modern diplomatic discourse. As we navigate the dangers of narrow unipololarity, his work is immensely important in burttressing the.importance of repositioning multipolarity and relevance of global institutions