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I. From UN Commission on Human Rights to UN Human Rights Council

One step forwards or two steps sideways

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ID9932278
AuthorsNazila Ghanea (0000-0002-3086-5107, Commonwealth Education Trust, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume55
Issue3
Pages695-705
Publication date2006-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational and Comparative Law Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-5893 • E-ISSN: 1471-6895
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1093/iclq/lei112
OpenAlexW2054018743
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited1

The policy decision to replace the United Nations (UN) Commission on Human Rights (CHR) with a new UN Human Rights Council (HRC) was taken by governments at the September 2005 World Summit and adopted as a General Assembly (GA) resolution on 15 March 2006. 1 This brought an end to the CHR's chequered 60-year history. 2 The membership, structure and aims and procedures of the new HRC underwent months of intense discussion between States in the lead up to the adoption of this resolution. The purpose of this note is to explain the various proposals explored in the shaping of the HRC and the extent to which the resolution bringing it into being responded to weaknesses perceived in the CHR. Since almost every reference to the CHR came to be prefaced by the term ‘discredited’ since 2005, the question is to what extent the reasons for the loss of legitimacy in the CHR were actually addressed in the crafting of the new HRC

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Citation span2008 - 2026 (19)
Highly citedNo

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