Secretary-General, 2007 The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world...

was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006. It was a subsidiary body of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and was also...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights...

Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant...

United States ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council is the diplomatic representative of the United States to the United Nations Human...

the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), attention to the expert-led human rights mechanisms (such as the United Nations Treaty Bodies and Special...

In the United States, human rights comprise a series of rights which are legally protected by the Constitution of the United States (particularly the...

The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by United Nations General Assembly in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend...

from other civil society organisations, presented it to the United Nations' Human Rights Council. The text was then used as a basis from 2009 to 2018 to negotiate...