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.

联合国对人权侵犯的公开谴责或羞辱是否会影响整个西方捐助国的外援交付规模？我认为，在联合国人权理事会（前身为联合国人权委员会）感到羞耻的国家鼓励捐助国通过国际和地方非政府组织提供更多援助。此外，我发现随着媒体报道的增加，这种影响更加明显。本文的研究结果表明，国际组织的确会影响高级民主国家的外交政策。此外，该论文还发现，尽管公众主要出于战略考虑而谴责其人权做法，但捐助国政府并没有通过缩减政府对政府的援助来惩罚受援国领导人。