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    Secretary-General, 2007 The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world...
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  • was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006. It was a subsidiary body of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and was also...
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  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights...
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    the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), attention to the expert-led human rights mechanisms (such as the United Nations Treaty Bodies and Special...
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    United States ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council is the diplomatic representative of the United States to the United Nations Human...
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    Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly...
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    given to independent human rights experts whose expertise is called upon by the United Nations (UN) to report or advise on human rights from a thematic or...
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  • from other civil society organisations, presented it to the United Nations' Human Rights Council. The text was then used as a basis from 2009 to 2018 to negotiate...
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  • The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant...
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  • In the United States, human rights comprise a series of rights which are legally protected by the Constitution of the United States (particularly the...
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  • The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by United Nations General Assembly in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend...
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    Human rights in the United Kingdom concern the fundamental rights in law of every person in the United Kingdom. An integral part of the UK constitution...
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    United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) is an instrument consisting of 31 principles implementing the United Nations'...
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  • the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights United Nations Human Rights Council United Nations Commission on Human Rights (disbanded) International Criminal...
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  • active treaties, and the United Nations Human Rights Council complaints procedures, with Universal Periodic Review and United Nations Special Rapporteur (known...
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    Report 2012, by Human Rights Watch Report of the commission of inquiry on human rights in Eritrea, United Nations Human Rights Council Report, 8 June 2015...
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  • The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) is a group of human rights monitors established in Ukraine in 2014 by the Secretary-General...
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    The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic...
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  • The human rights record of North Korea is often considered to be among the worst in the world and has been globally condemned, with the United Nations and...
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  • resources at the United Nations. The former Secretary of State of the United States, John Kerry, has accused the U.N. Human Rights Council of focusing disproportionately...
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    the United Nations Human Rights Council published a report analysing the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya's human rights record with input from member nations, most...
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  • International human rights organizations, along with the United Nations, and the United States Department of State, have reported human rights violations...
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  • United Nations Human Rights Council This council includes 47 states and is charged with the responsibility of promoting and protecting human rights on...
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  • A human rights commission, also known as a human relations commission, is a body set up to investigate, promote or protect human rights. The term may...
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  • United Nations Human Rights Council. 5 April 2024. Retrieved 6 April 2024. "Voting results" (PDF). hrcmeetings.ohchr.org. United Nations Human Rights...
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  • decisions, and the United Nations Human Rights Council considered the ISA inconsistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Under SOSMA, "initial...
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    Economic and Social council which set up the UN Human Rights Commission now the United Nations Human Rights Council. Chapter VI of the Charter entitled International...
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    universal human rights legislation. All UN organs have advisory roles to the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations Human Rights Council, and...
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    the United Nations General Assembly was recommended by the United Nations Human Rights Council. On Thursday, September 13, 2007, the United Nations voted...
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    International urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to take strong action for conducting an investigation into the escalating human rights crisis in Belarus...
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