About United Nations Human Rights Council

UNHRC is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system. It is responsible for promoting and protecting human rights around the world. 

• The headquarters of UNHRC is in Geneva, Switzerland.
• The UN General Assembly elects the members who occupy the UNHRC’s 47 seats for 3 years period.
• No member may occupy a seat for more than 2 consecutive terms.
• The UNHRC is the successor to the UN Commission on Human Rights and is a subsidiary body of the UN General Assembly. 
• The Human Rights Council is a separate entity from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), but the council works closely with the OHCHR. 
• OHCHR provides substantive support for the meetings of the Human Rights Council and follow-up to the Council’s deliberations. 
• The General Assembly, via a two-thirds majority, can suspend the rights and privileges of any Council member that it decides has persistently committed gross and systematic violations of human rights during its term of membership. 
• The Universal Periodic Review of the UNHRC assesses the human rights situations in all 193 UN Member States.
• The Review takes into account information from different sources, one of them being the NGOs.

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