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UN Human Rights Council

The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the UN system made up of 47 States responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe. The Council was created by the UN General Assembly on 15 March 2006 with the main purpose of addressing situations of human rights violations and make recommendations on them Website: www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/pages/hrcindex.aspx
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Communications, cases examined, observations and other activities conducted by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

1 December 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on its ninth session, Geneva, 11-15 July 2016

8 August 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the Working Group on the Right to Development on its seventeenth session (Geneva, 25 April – 3 May 2016)

20 July 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Addendum : Revision of the United Nations Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions

16 June 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Sessional Reports

Expert workshop to review the mandate of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

10 May 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the Human Rights Council on its twenty-fourth special session

9 May 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the Human Rights Council on its twenty-third special session

13 August 2015 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Sessional Reports

Report of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on a draft United Nations declaration on the right to peace on its third session

26 May 2015 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Sessional Reports

Progress report of the Advisory Committee on the role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights, including human rights mainstreaming in local administration and public services

4 September 2014 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Sessional Reports

Progress report on the research-based report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on best practices and main challenges in the promotion and protection of human rights in post-disaster and post-conflict situations

11 August 2014 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Sessional Reports

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