Review of the Human Rights Council
Background
The founding resolution of the Human Rights Council A/RES/60/251 provides in operative paragraph 1 that the General Assembly shall review the status of the Council within five years.
In operative paragraph 16 of the same resolution the General Assembly also decided that the Human Rights Council shall review its work and functioning five years after its establishment and report to the General Assembly.
Key Documents
- Zero Draft
(2 May 2011) - HRC Resolution entitled "review of the work and functioning of the Human Rights Council" of 25 March 2011, including the annex thereto
- Report of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on the review of the work and functioning of the Human Rights Council
- Resolution establishing the Human Rights Council (A/RES/60/251)
- Coordination between the HRC Review Processes in New York and Geneva
- Non-paper of the Co-facilitators
Letters
- Co-facilitator's letter dated on 14 June 2011
- Co-facilitator's letter dated on 31 May 2011
- Co-facilitator's letter dated on 2 May 2011
- Co-facilitators' letter dated on 11 April 2011
- Co-facilitators' letter dated on 1 April 2011
- Co-facilitators' letter dated on 20 March 2011
- Co-facilitators' letter dated on 14 February 2011
- Co-facilitators' letter dated on 12 January 2011
- Co-facilitators' letter dated on 23 November 2010
Statements
- Pakistan (HRC Review 9th informal meeting of the plenary - 15 April 2011)
Contact Information
- Office of the President of the General Assembly:
Ms. Natalie Kohli, Senior Advisor for the Human Rights Council Review and Third Committee, Office of the President of the General Assembly [kohlin@un.org, +1-917-367-3430]