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Human rights--from the Commission to the Council.

Publication: International Peace Update
Publication Date: 01-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The Human Rights Council, replacing the Commission on Human Rights, was officially established by the UN General Assembly on 15 March 2006 with the adoption of resolution A/RES/60/251. The resolution not only sets out the general aims, principles and functions of the Council, but gives the Council the task to work out the details of how to put it into practice; how to structure and organize the work to promote and protect all human rights for all, more equally and more effectively than the Commission. It is turning out to be quite a task.

Although the Commission on Human Rights was scheduled to meet and deal with substantive matters one last time from 13 March to 21 April in Geneva, it met only four times, each time very briefly: on 16 January to elect its Bureau; on 13 March to postpone...

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