Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The ICCPR states the basic rules for the membership of the Human Rights Committee. Article 28 of the ICCPR states that the Committee is composed of 18 members from states parties to the ICCPR, "who shall be persons of high moral character and recognized competence in the field of human rights", with consideration "to the usefulness of the participation of some persons having legal experience."
In March 2017, at the 34th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, Vanuatu made a joint statement on behalf of Tonga, Nauru, Palau, Tuvalu, the Solomon Islands and Marshall Islands raising human rights violations in the Western New Guinea, declared which has been occupied by Indonesia since 1963, [220] and requested that the UN High ...
The 2002 United Nations Security Council election was held on 27 September 2002 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City during the 57th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The General Assembly elected five non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year terms commencing on 1 January 2003.
A/RES/57/100 - The 100th resolution of the General Assembly in Session 57 (the year 2002–2003). A/RES/1239(XIII) - Prior to 1976 (session 31), General Assembly resolutions were numbered consecutively from the beginning, with the session number given in Roman numerals. This is the 1239th resolution, which was passed in session 13 (1958–1959).
2013 (HRC res. S-20/1 and HRC res. 24/34) / 2021 (HRC res. 48/19) Yao Agbetse (Togo), appointed at the HRC42 (September 2019) HRC60 (September 2025) Marie-Thérèse Keita Bocoum (Côte d'Ivoire), (2014–2019) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a mechanism of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) that emerged from the 2005 UN reform process. [1] Commonly referred to as the UPR, it was established by General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 3 April 2006, the UPR periodically examines the human rights performance of all 193 UN Member States. [2]
Shamil Idriss, CEO of Search for Common Ground, a Washington, D.C.-based peacebuilding group, agreed. "It opens up an opportunity, a fragile opportunity that hopefully translates into a permanent ...
Human Rights Council Session 19th Document Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea A/HRC/19/65 13 February 2012. Human Rights Council Session 22nd Document Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Marzuki ...