United Nations Human Rights Council Monitor

All you need to know about the Human Rights Council

Human Rights Council elections

On May 17 2007, 14 new members were elected to the Human Rights Council. See the results here.

Sessions of the Human Rights Council

The 5th session of the Human Rights Council will take place in Geneva from 11 to 18 June 2007.

This session is the last within the Council's first year of existence and will be historic as the Council has until 30 June 2007 to complete the review of mechanisms and mandates and develop the modalitites of the UPR. As the new members of the Council take up their positions from 19 June 2007, and according to the current draft timetable, decisions and conclusions on these matters will be made by the end of the 5th session.

Useful documents and links related to the 5th session of the Council:

• Before the session, you will be able to downlaod the Reports in Short (summaries of the reports of special procedures that will be examined during the 5th session) and a Council Alert summarising the important issues of the upcoming session
• During the session, you will be able to download our Daily Updates
• Draft timetable (source: OHCHR)
• Provisional agenda (source: OHCHR)
• Live Webcasts of the Council (source: OHCHR)
  After the session we will produce an analytical Overview of the session

Council Monitor

The Council Monitor is an ISHR publication reporting on all the key developments at the Human Rights Council. It is part of ISHR's Human Rights Monitor Series. It consists of the Council Alert (summarising important issues of upcoming session of the Council or its Working Groups), Daily Updates (published during each session), Session Overviews (published after each session of the Council), as well as Working Group Reports on the institution building Working Groups of the Council.

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