The United Nations Human Rights Council: Issues for Congress


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On March 15 2006 the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution replacing the Commission on Human Rights with a new Human Rights Council (the Council). The U.N. Secretariat and some governments including the United States view the establishment of the Council as a key component of comprehensive U.N. reform. The Council was designed to be an improvement over the Commission which was widely criticized for the composition of its membership when perceived human rights abusers were elected as members. The General Assembly resolution creating the Council among other things increases the number of meetings per year reduces the number of Council seats from 53 to 47 and introduces a universal periodic review process to assess each Member States fulfillment of its human rights obligations.
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