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The Human Rights Council’s relationships with the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council

by Emmanuel Bichet, Stephanie Rutz and the URG team Human rights institutions and mechanisms, Policy reports

The Human Rights Council’s relationships with the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council

As the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (‘the Council’) celebrates it tenth anniversary in 2016, this policy paper aims to provide an overview of the institutional issues relating to its status as a subsidiary body within the UN system. In light of its subsidiary status, the paper explores the Council’s synergies and interactions with its parent body – the …