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The Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room is the meeting room of the United Nations Human Rights Council, in the Palace of Nations in Geneva.
Protest at UN against China's re-election in the Human Rights Council
Saudi Arabian-led airstrikes in Yemen, June 2015. Saudi Arabia is operating without a UN mandate.

United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world.

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United Nations

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Intergovernmental organization whose purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

Intergovernmental organization whose purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

Members of the United Nations
1943 sketch by Franklin Roosevelt of the UN original three branches: The Four Policemen, an executive branch, and an international assembly of forty UN member states
The UN in 1945: founding members in light blue, protectorates and territories of the founding members in dark blue
Dag Hammarskjöld was a particularly active secretary-general from 1953 until his death in 1961.
Kofi Annan, secretary-general from 1997 to 2006
Flags of member nations at the United Nations Headquarters, seen in 2007
Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet general secretary, addressing the UN General Assembly in December 1988
Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, demonstrates a vial with alleged Iraq chemical weapon probes to the UN Security Council on Iraq war hearings, 5 February 2003
Current secretary-general, António Guterres
The ICJ ruled that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law.
Under Sukarno, Indonesia became the first and only country to leave the United Nations.
A Nepalese soldier on a peacekeeping deployment providing security at a rice distribution site in Haiti during 2010
The UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus was established in 1974 following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1949
Three former directors of the Global Smallpox Eradication Programme reading the news that smallpox has been globally eradicated in 1980
In Jordan, UNHCR remains responsible for the Syrian refugees and the Zaatari refugee camp.
The 2001 Nobel Peace Prize to the UN—diploma in the lobby of the UN Headquarters in New York City
Marking of the UN's 70th anniversary – Budapest, 2015

In 2006, it was replaced by a Human Rights Council consisting of 47 nations.

Eleanor Roosevelt at United Nations for Human Rights Commission meeting in Lake Success, New York, in 1947

United Nations Commission on Human Rights

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Eleanor Roosevelt at United Nations for Human Rights Commission meeting in Lake Success, New York, in 1947

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006.

Members of the African Group colour-coded for the number of years each spent on the Security Council as of 2010

United Nations Regional Groups

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The United Nations Regional Groups are the geopolitical regional groups of member states of the United Nations.

The United Nations Regional Groups are the geopolitical regional groups of member states of the United Nations.

Members of the African Group colour-coded for the number of years each spent on the Security Council as of 2010
Members of the Latin American and Caribbean Group colour-coded for the number of years each spent on the Security Council as of 2010
The Eastern European Group in 2010, with the years each member spent in the United Nations Security Council, including former members represented as outlines
A map showing from which countries from the Eastern European Group has there been elected a President of the United Nations General Assembly as of September 2017.
Members of the Western European and Others Group colour-coded for the number of years each spent on the Security Council as of 2010
Western European and Others Group Latin American and Caribbean Group African Group Eastern European Group Asia and the Pacific Group UN member not in any voting group (Kiribati) Observer states (Palestine, Holy See) Disputed territory

The Group also has 14 seats on the United Nations Economic and Social Council and 13 seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council.

United Nations Economic and Social Council

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One of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization, specifically in regards to the fifteen specialised agencies, the eight functional commissions, and the five regional commissions under its jurisdiction.

One of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization, specifically in regards to the fifteen specialised agencies, the eight functional commissions, and the five regional commissions under its jurisdiction.

Disbanded in 2006 and replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly.

Christof Heyns, former Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and Maina Kiai, former Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (2015).

United Nations special rapporteur

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Christof Heyns, former Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and Maina Kiai, former Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (2015).
The meetings of the United Nations Human Rights Council take place in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room of the Palace of Nations.

Special rapporteur, independent expert, and working group member are titles given to individuals working on behalf of the United Nations (UN) within the scope of "special procedure" mechanisms who have a specific country or thematic mandate from the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

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Intergovernmental organization founded in 1969, consisting of 57 member states.

Intergovernmental organization founded in 1969, consisting of 57 member states.

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Head-office Building, Jeddah
Session of the Islamic Summit Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, April 2016
The Islamic University of Technology was set up by the OIC in Bangladesh

Attempts to have it adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council have met increasing criticism, because of its contradiction of the UDHR, including from liberal Muslim groups.

United Nations General Assembly

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One of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN.

One of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN.

Methodist Central Hall, London, the location of the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in 1946.
Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad addressing the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2003
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev addresses the 64th session of the UN General Assembly on 24 September 2009
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero addressing the General Assembly in New York, 20 September 2005
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff delivers the opening speech at the 66th Session of the General Assembly on 21 September 2011, marking the first time a woman opened a United Nations session
The United Nations General Assembly building
Panorama of the UNGA
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev addressing the UN General Assembly in December 1988
Division of the General Assembly by membership in the five United Nations Regional Groups: The Group of African States (54) The Group of Asia-Pacific States (54) The Group of Eastern European States (23) The Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (33) The Group of Western European and Other States (28) No group
Division of seats of the Economic and Social Council based on regional grouping: African States (14) Asia-Pacific States (11) Eastern European States (6) Latin American and Caribbean States (10) Western European and Other States (13)

The most important elections for the General Assembly include those for the upcoming President of the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Human Rights Council, and the International Court of Justice.

Ethnoreligious groups in 2002. Zaydi Shi'a followers make up between 35% and 42.1% of Muslims in Yemen.

Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen

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Intervention in the Yemeni Civil War in response to calls from the president of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi for military support after he was ousted by the Houthi movement.

Intervention in the Yemeni Civil War in response to calls from the president of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi for military support after he was ousted by the Houthi movement.

Ethnoreligious groups in 2002. Zaydi Shi'a followers make up between 35% and 42.1% of Muslims in Yemen.
King Salman of Saudi Arabia and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir meet with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in September 2015
Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir announced a five-day ceasefire in Yemen, 8 May 2015
An airstrike in Sanaʽa, 11 May 2015
Protest against the military intervention in Yemen on 14 August 2020
Saudi Arabia's UK-supplied Eurofighter Typhoons are playing a central role in Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen.
The US Navy has actively participated in the Saudi-led naval blockade, which humanitarian organizations argue has been the main contributing factor to the outbreak of famine in Yemen.
Yemeni capital Sanaa after airstrikes, 9 October 2015
Protest against the military intervention in Yemen, New York City, December 2017
Protest outside 10 Downing Street against a visit by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, London, March 2018
The conflict is exacerbating Yemen's water scarcity, Sanaa, 21 May 2015
An airstrike in Sanaʽa on a textile factory in July 2015 left more than 1,300 people unemployed (photo: A. Mojalli/VOA, November 2015)
Apartment building destroyed by a strike in Sanaa on 5 September 2015
Development of the number of IDPs and IDP returnees (January 2010 – June 2018)
"Let Yemen Live" protest at US and Saudi missions to the UN, New York City, December 2017
Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh was initially allied with Houthis, until they assassinated him on accounts of treason.
Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 7 May 2015
Foreign Ministers of the U.S., the U.K., Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, before a working dinner focused on Yemen, 19 July 2016
Protesters against the US-backed Saudi-led war on Yemen were led away handcuffed by New York police outside the US mission to the UN on 11 December 2017
Registration of Indian citizens evacuating from Yemen, March 2015

As a result of this lobbying effort, in October 2021, the UN human rights council voted against extending the independent war crimes investigation.

Richard A. Falk

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American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor's Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor's Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.

Bodies of civilians shot by Russian soldiers, lie on a street in Bucha. The hands of one of them are tied behind their back. 3 April 2022

War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

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During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian authorities and armed forces have committed war crimes by carrying out both deliberate attacks against civilian targets and indiscriminate attacks in densely populated areas.

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian authorities and armed forces have committed war crimes by carrying out both deliberate attacks against civilian targets and indiscriminate attacks in densely populated areas.

Bodies of civilians shot by Russian soldiers, lie on a street in Bucha. The hands of one of them are tied behind their back. 3 April 2022
Bodies of civilians shot by Russian soldiers, lie on a street in Bucha. The hands of one of them are tied behind their back. 3 April 2022
Body of a child killed in a Russian missile attack on the city centre of Vinnytsia
Shelled residential buildings in Kharkiv Oblast
Mariupol theatre airstrike conducted by the Russian Armed Forces on 16 March 2022
Photo distributed by the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs showing a Ukrainian civilian killed during the Russian bombing of Chernihiv
Kramatorsk railway bombing in April 2022
Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian shelling in Mariupol.
Residential building in the center of Kharkiv destroyed by a Russian missile strike
Residential building in Kyiv after being hit by a missile, 26 February 2022.
Shopping center in Kremenchuk after the shelling on 27 June
Emergency servicemen carry a dead body found under rubble in Malyn city, Zhytomyr Oblast, after a Russian airstrike on 8 March
Photo distributed by the Ukrainian government showing bodies in the Bucha area in April 2022
Captured Russian soldiers during the Battle of Sumy.

Two other independent international agencies are also investigating violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law in the area: the International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, established by the United Nations Human Rights Council on 4 March 2022, and the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, deployed by OHCHR.