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United Nations Human Rights Council

The meeting room of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is in the United Nations System. The UNHRC took the place of the former United Nations Commission on Human Rights (CHR). It was established by the United Nations General Assembly.

The General Assembly made the UNHRC on 15 March 2006. This was to replace the previous CHR. People did not like the CHR because they allowed countries with poor human rights records to be members.[1][2]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson have not liked that the council acts for politics instead of human rights. Several people have said the council focuses too much on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.[3][4][5] The United States did not take part in the Council when George W. Bush was president. They changed when Barack Obama became President.[6]

On 18 June 2007, the UNHRC made a plan for future work. They will assess the human rights in all 192 UN Member States. They will also allow people and organizations to bring complaints about human rights violations to the attention of the Council.

Presidents

No. Name Country Time
17 Václav Bálek [Wikidata]   Czech Republic 1 January 2023 – present[7]
16 Federico Villegas   Argentina 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2022[8]
15 Nazahat Shameen Khan   Fiji 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2021[9]
14 Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger   Austria 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2020[10]
13 Coly Seck   Senegal 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2019
12 Vojislav Šuc   Slovenia 1 January 2018 – 31 December 2018
11 Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli   El Salvador 1 January 2017 – 31 December 2017
10 Choi Kyong-lim   Republic of Korea 1 January 2016 – 31 December 2016[11]
9 Joachim Rücker   Germany 1 January 2015 – 31 December 2015
8 Baudelaire Ndong Ella   Gabon 1 January 2014 – 31 December 2014
7 Remigiusz Henczel   Poland 1 January 2013 – 31 December 2013[12]
6 Laura Dupuy Lasserre   Uruguay 19 June 2011 – 31 December 2012
5 Sihasak Phuangketkeow   Thailand 19 June 2010 – 18 June 2011[13]
4 Alex Van Meeuwen   Belgium 19 June 2009 – 18 June 2010[13]
3 Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi   Nigeria 19 June 2008 – 18 June 2009
2 Doru Romulus Costea   Romania 19 June 2007 – 18 June 2008
1 Luis Alfonso de Alba   Mexico 19 June 2006 – 18 June 2007

United Nations Human Rights Council Media

  • United Nations Human Rights Council Membership

  • Protest at UN against China's re-election in the Human Rights Council

  • Saudi Arabian-led airstrikes in Yemen, June 2015. Saudi Arabia is operating without a UN mandate.

References

  1. ↑ UN creates new human rights body. BBC. 15 March 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4810538.stm. 
  2. ↑ http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/60/PV.72&Lang=E
  3. ↑ Secretary-General urges human rights activists to ‘fill leadership vacuum’, hold world leaders to account, in address to international day event, UN Department of Public Information 8 12 2008
  4. ↑ UN's Ban faults rights council over Israel, Reuters (reprinted in Ynet News 21 06 2007
  5. ↑ Human Rights Council president wants reform, SwissInfo 29 09 2007
  6. ↑ Lynch, Colum (1 April 2009). U.S. to Seek Seat on U.N. Human Rights Council. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/31/AR2009033104115.html. Retrieved 26 May 2010. 
  7. ↑ "Human Rights Council elects Václav Bálek of the Czech Republic as its President for 2023". UN OHCR. UN. 9 December 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  8. ↑ "Human Rights Council elects Federico Villegas of Argentina as its president for 2022". UN OHCR. UN. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  9. ↑ Farge, Emma (January 15, 2021). "Fiji wins presidency of U.N. rights body after vote unblocks leadership impasse". msn.com. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fiji-wins-presidency-of-un-rights-body-after-vote-unblocks-leadership-impasse/ar-BB1cMyUD?ocid=ob-fb-enus-1541512262291. Retrieved January 15, 2021. 
  10. ↑ "President of the 14th Cycle". Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  11. ↑ The Human Rights Council elects Ambassador Ambassador Choi Kyong-lim of the Republic of Korea as its new President. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  12. ↑ Section, United Nations News Service (10 December 2012). "UN News – UN Human Rights Council: new President will help promote human rights equitably". UN News Service Section.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Human Rights Council – Membership of the Human Rights Council". .ohchr.org. Archived from the original on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.


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