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...

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...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights...

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...

the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), attention to the expert-led human rights mechanisms (such as the United Nations Treaty Bodies and Special...

Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly...

United States ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council is the diplomatic representative of the United States to the United Nations Human...

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...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant...

In the United States, human rights consists of a series of rights which are legally protected by the Constitution of the United States (particularly by...

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...

United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) is an instrument consisting of 31 principles implementing the United Nations'...

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...

active treaties, and the United Nations Human Rights Council complaints procedures, with Universal Periodic Review and United Nations Special Rapporteur (known...

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...

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic...

The human rights record of North Korea is often considered to be the worst in the world and has been globally condemned, with the United Nations and groups...

the membership of Russia in the United Nations Human Rights Council over "grave concern at the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine...

universal human rights legislation. All UN organs have advisory roles to the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations Human Rights Council, and...

the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights United Nations Human Rights Council United Nations Commission on Human Rights (disbanded) International Criminal...

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...

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...

the United Nations General Assembly was recommended by the United Nations Human Rights Council. On Thursday, September 13, 2007, the United Nations voted...

International human rights organizations, along with the United Nations, and the United States Department of State, have reported human rights violations...

decisions, and the United Nations Human Rights Council considered the ISA inconsistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Under SOSMA, "initial...

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...

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a mechanism of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) that emerged from the 2005 UN reform process. Commonly...

human rights at the United Nations Secretariat United Nations Human Rights Council, an organ tasked with the promotion of human rights at the United Nations...

of United Nations Human Rights Council. As of May 2006, Kiribati is not a member of any regional group. United Nations Regional Groups List of United Nations...

Human Rights Day (HRD) is celebrated annually around the world on 10 December every year. The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's...