The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN
Commission on Human Rights. The Council's mandate and founding principles demonstrate …

The United Nations Human Rights Council was established in 2006 following the
disbanding of its predecessor, the Commission on Human Rights. One of the main criticisms …

This article first reviews and compares Human Rights Council and University Period Review
(HRC/UPR) research published during and shortly after the institution-building period (2006 …

First Published in 2000. The Simpleton, which was written in 1968 and could not be
performed for political reasons, saw the light of day only in 1994. Its complex games of …

Could racial or religious bias within the United Nations be hindering efforts to prevent and
punish the crime of genocide? I answer this question by surveying the UN response to a …

The United States' election to the UN Human Rights Council (" Council") in 2009 displays a
shift in foreign policy under President Barack Obama. 2 The Obama administration's …

Monitoring the extent to which states respect their human rights obligations is a difficult task.
Within the United Nations, two major mechanisms exist to review states' human rights …

The present work aims at exploring how an individual State is able to contribute decisively to
the work of the Human Rights Council in one of the main successes of this still relatively new …

In 2006, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was established by the Human Rights
Council through its institutional building package with a mandate for periodically reviewing …

There has been a tendency of late to look to Turkey—a state ruled by a Muslim Brotherhood-
related so-called Islamist party—as a political model, or even a political miracle. Western …