{"id":88164,"date":"2019-12-17T11:58:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T06:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12419"},"modified":"2019-12-17T11:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T06:28:04","slug":"explained-what-is-the-un-body-that-has-criticized-india-for-the-new-citizenship-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-the-un-body-that-has-criticized-india-for-the-new-citizenship-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What is the UN body that has criticized India for the new citizenship Act?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act for being fundamentally discriminatory in nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is the principal UN entity on human rights. It is a part of the UN Secretariat, one of the main organs of the UN.<\/li><li>&nbsp;It was established in 1993 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/li><li>Its mandate is to promote and protect the human rights that are guaranteed under international law and put forward in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system made up of 47 States. It was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act for being fundamentally discriminatory in nature. Facts: About the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) It is the principal UN entity on human rights. It is a part of the UN Secretariat, one of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-the-un-body-that-has-criticized-india-for-the-new-citizenship-act\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What is the UN body that has criticized India for the new citizenship Act?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[5862],"class_list":["post-88164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-ohchr","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704653317},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88164","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}