If members of this Human Rights Council are to live up to our responsibilities, there must be a resolution which secures this access. The UN Human Rights Council adopted by consensus a draft resolution on Myanmar put forward by the UK and the EU at a session in Geneva on on Friday. The sponsors of council resolutions often agree to soften the language of their texts in order to win consensus and to show that the 47-member body is united on thorny human rights issues. UN Human Rights Resolutions Portal. 46 th Session of the UN Human Rights Council. The resolution shows normative progress, in particular by addressing human rights issues around digital divides, including on the […] As the UN Human Rights Council begins its first meeting of 2021 in Geneva, high on its crowded agenda will be to decide whether to adopt a new resolution … The Human Rights Council has no power to impose sanctions but can train a potent political spotlight on rights abuses and violations. The resolution – decided unanimously without a vote - follows a rare Urgent Debate in the Council earlier in the week, requested by the African group of nations, following UNHRC resolution on the Philippines requests the High Commissioner and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human […] Through this resolution, Council members emphasized that Human Rights education and training are essential for the fulfillment of individual rights and fundamental freedoms, and greatly contribute to the promotion of equality and the decline of conflict and of human rights violations. The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution on the situation of human rights in Belarus in the run up to the 2020 presidential election and its aftermath. The UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachelet, is to spearhead efforts to address systemic racism against people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, the Human Rights Council decided on Friday. The UK will live up to our responsibilities. Photo courtesy of Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect. Madam President, Madam High Commissioner, Distinguished Ambassadors, Ladies and Gentlemen, 1. It renewed these commitments in two further UNHRC resolutions in 2017 and 2019. 23 February 2021, Geneva. The Human Rights Council (HRC) is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system, which is responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights and addressing human rights violations across the world. Sixtieth session Agenda item 46 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly 60/251. The Core Group on Sri Lanka tabled the draft resolution at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, a UN spokesperson said, Resolution HRC_46_L.1 titled ‘promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ was tabled on Monday, UNHRC spokesman Rolando Gómez said.He said that this was the first resolution to be tabled at… The resolution could strengthen High Commissioner Bachelet’s hand by explicitly encouraging and giving her office the resources to apply the prevention tools the Council endorsed last year in Resolution 45/31 on “preventing human rights violations”. A delegate from Angola looks on during the vote of a watered down resolution condemning structural racism and police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, 19 June 2020. A draft resolution presented by the UK and the EU calls for the ‘immediate and unconditional release’ of senior officials in the civilian government. On 10 July, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted its third resolution on Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM), under a theme of ‘consequences of child marriage’. Human Rights Council The General Assembly, . The council has no power to impose sanctions but can train a political spotlight on rights abuses and violations. The Human Rights Council, Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2003/71 of 25 April 2003 and 2005/60 of 20 April 2005, and Commission decision 2004/119 of 21 April 2004, Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions relevant to the relationship between human rights and the environment, including resolutions 7/23 of 28 March 2008 The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights … The 25/28 (2014) resolution urged all states to ensure no actions are taken that assist the expansion of settlements, to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in relation to the OPT, and to provide information to individuals and businesses on the human rights impacts and legal repercussions of conducting economic activities with the settlement enterprise. The Human Rights Council, Acting in compliance with the mandate entrusted to it by the United Nations General Assembly in resolution 60/25 1 of 15 March 2006, Having considered the draft text on institution-building submitted by the President of the Council, 1. The document calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all people arbitrarily detained in the country, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint. The resolution establishing the UNHRC states that "when electing members of the Council, Member States shall take into account the contribution of candidates to the promotion and protection of human rights and their voluntary pledges and commitments made thereto", and that "members elected to the Council shall uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights". The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) dismissed calls for an international investigation into the Philippines’ ‘war on drugs’ and adopted, instead, a resolution that encourages technical assistance on human rights matters to the government. Foreign Secretary William Hague: Further to my written Ministerial statement of 18 March [40WS], the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed a resolution on Sri Lanka on 27 March. The Human Rights Resolution Portal provides information on, and access to, all resolutions ever passed by the Human Rights Council, and all resolutions adopted by the General Assembly's Third Committee since 2006. America, Uruguay*, Yemen*: draft resolution 24/… Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage: challenges, achievements, best practices and implementation gaps The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant Friday’s session comes shortly after the Biden administration, which has already imposed sanctions on coup leaders, revived US participation at the 47-member Geneva body. Human Rights Council Twentieth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council 20/8. In 2015 the Government of Sri Lanka co-sponsored a landmark UN Human Rights Council resolution, 30/1, making commitments to promote reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka.