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Country mandates must be renewed yearly by the UNHRC; thematic mandates must be renewed every three years. [87] Mandate-holders, whether holding a thematic or country-specific mandate, are generally limited to six years of service. [91] [92] The list of thematic special procedures mandate-holders can be found here: United Nations special rapporteur
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it was replaced by the UN Human Rights Council in 2006.
The president is directly elected by universal suffrage for a term of six years. Since 1994, no president may be elected for more than two consecutive terms. The president must be a native-born Finnish citizen. The presidential office was established in the Constitution Act of 1919.
This is a list of the current permanent representatives to the United Nations at United Nations Headquarters, New York City. The list includes the country that they represent and the date that they presented their credentials to the UN Secretary-General. [1] The list is sorted by the official order in which the flags are flown in front of UN ...
The Good Country Index is a composite statistic of 35 data points mostly generated by the United Nations.These data points are combined into a common measure which gives an overall ranking, and a ranking in seven categories:
While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
3 UN member countries. 4 Former states. ... List of current presidents; Lists of presidents by age; ... This list is incomplete; ...
The UNHRC was established in 1946 by ECOSOC, and was one of the first two "Functional Commissions" set up within the early UN structure (the other being the Commission on the Status of Women). It was a body created under the terms of the United Nations Charter (specifically, under Article 68 ) to which all UN member states are signatories.