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UN Human Rights Council and High Commissioner for Human Rights

2016
There is a direct link between the implementation of the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the mandates of the United Nations Human Rights Council and of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). While there is general agreement that the OHCHR has an important role to play in the implementation of R2P, this role remains largely undeveloped ...
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The Human Rights Council

2020
Abstract This chapter focuses on the Human Rights Council. As the principal UN human rights body, the Council is arguably the lynchpin of the UN human rights machinery, bringing together states, independent experts, UN staff, and civil society actors, as well as reporting to the full UN membership via the General Assembly.
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Human Rights Council

Abstract This chapter discusses the Human Rights Council which is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations System that is responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe. It considers the Human Rights Council as the lynchpin of the UN human rights machinery that brings together States ...
Angelika Nussberger, Júlia Miklasová
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Human Rights Council

2010
After 60 years the Commission on Human Rights, established by ECOSOC resolution E/RES/5 (I) of 16 February 1946 as a subsidiary organ of ECOSOC for the promotion and protection of human rights, was abolished with effect on 16 June 2006 by ECOSOC resolution E/RES/2006/2 of 22 March 2006 at the request of the General Assembly in resolution A/RES/60/251 ...
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The UN Human Rights Council

Abstract The Human Rights Council (Council) is an intergovernmental body within the United Nations (UN) system that promotes and protects human rights. The UN General Assembly created the Council in 2006 to replace the Commission on Human Rights (Commission), a similar body that was established in 1946 under the UN Charter.
Eric Tistounet, Juan Miramontes
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The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine of the Council of Europe

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 1997
The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine developed by the Council of Europe, now undergoing ratification, is the first international treaty focused on bioethics. This article describes the background of the Convention's development and its general provisions and provides a comparison of its requirements ...
F William, Dommel, Duane, Alexander
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The High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Council

2014
The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council’s increased activity came in reaction to the emergence of significant political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa that commenced in late 2010. The High Commissioner must also urgently undertake institutional reforms within the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to enable it to ...
Suzanne Nossel, Christen L. Broecker
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WPS and the Human Rights Council

2018
This chapter explores the role of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in the conceptualization, interpretation, and monitoring of the WPS agenda. To do so, it examines its policy activities, including the adoption of resolutions on thematic or specific country situations, and also through the reports emanating from selected Commissions of Inquiry. Moreover,
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