{"id":264463,"date":"2023-10-14T13:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=264463"},"modified":"2023-10-14T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T13:31:30","slug":"un-general-assembly-elects-15-new-members-to-human-rights-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-general-assembly-elects-15-new-members-to-human-rights-council\/","title":{"rendered":"UN General Assembly elects 15 new members to Human Rights Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cUN General Assembly elects 15 new members to Human Rights Council\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in \u201c<\/span><b>UN\u201d on 14th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UN General Assembly has elected 15 new countries to serve on the Human Rights Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC) is an intergovernmental body within the United Nations system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Created in:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2006 to replace the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mandate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is responsible for 1) strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and 2) addressing situations of human rights violations and making recommendations on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Members:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is composed of 47 member states elected by the United Nations General Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The term of each seat is three years, and no member may occupy a seat for more than two consecutive terms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The seats are distributed along the following lines: a) 13 for the African Group b) 13 for the Asia-Pacific Group c) 6 for the Eastern European Group d) 8 for the Latin American and Caribbean Group e) 7 for the Western European and Others Group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Universal Periodic Review (UPR)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is a unique mechanism within the UNHRC designed to assess and review the human rights records of all United Nations member states.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Headquarters: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geneva, Switzerland.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cUN General Assembly elects 15 new members to Human Rights Council\u201d published in \u201cUN\u201d on 14th October 2023 What is the News? The UN General Assembly has elected 15 new countries to serve on the Human Rights Council. What is the United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC)? United&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-general-assembly-elects-15-new-members-to-human-rights-council\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN General Assembly elects 15 new members to Human Rights Council<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1566,1236,9],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-264463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-organisations","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":13,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698476616},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}