The United States has been elected to the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council for another three-year term.
Last week the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution highly critical of Sri Lanka's human rights record.
Earlier, the UN Human Rights Council said it wanted investigators to identify the perpetrators of the killings in Houla.
One hundred twelve countries have been reviewed to date under the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council.
Israel has boycotted a regular review by the UN Human Rights Council, the first time any country has done so.
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his ministers must lead the charge discrediting groups like UNRWRA, the ICC, and the UN Human Rights Council.
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The decree was issued by Sheikh Khalifa just hours after the UAE was elected to a three-year term on the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Following the no-show by Israeli representatives at Tuesday's meeting of the UN human rights council in Geneva, the meeting was suspended and a response is being decided.
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He has also protested against the Indian government's position on a resolution on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka which is before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
South Africa's Business Day has criticized African governments for downplaying the Sudanese government's responsibility at the new UN Human Rights Council created this year, saying the Africa group did no more than offer a weak draft resolution.
Russian authorities claim the searches are routine but Pavel Chikov, a member of the Russian presidential Human Rights Council, said up to 2, 000 organisations had been targeted with inspections and searches last month, in connection with the NGO law.
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Contribute to the work of the UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies, especially the Committee on Economic, social and Cultural Rights and participate in their work as well as that of the Human rights council and other UN bodies related to the right to education.
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The European institution responsible for defending human rights, the Council of Europe, had urged Hungary to postpone the vote.
The European Convention of Human Rights was prepared by the Council of Europe in 1950 and ratified by the United Kingdom in 1951.
Samantha Power is the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the National Security Council.
The European Court of Human Rights allows generous latitude to Council of Europe states to make their own decisions about such developments as civil partnerships.
The Permanent Forum of Arab-African Dialogue was launched in 2009 by UNESCO and the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights, as a result of three International Conferences on Democracy and Human Rights.
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The opening session will bring together Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, Abdou Diouf, Secretary-General of La Francophonie and Honorary President of the Forum, and Boutros Butros-Ghali, President of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights and Vice-President of the Forum.
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Egypt's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), an organization aimed at promoting human rights in Egypt, told the BBC they received 50 complaints on electoral violations ranging from delay in opening voing booths, to campaigning for candidates outside polling stations during voting.
Jan Kleijssen, Director of Standard Setting in the Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe, and William Horsley, Media Freedom Representative, Association of European Journalists, will also speak.
But that policy was reversed by his successor Barack Obama, whose administration said it wanted to work from within the council to improve the UN human rights system.
The 47 judges of the European Court of Human Rights, one for each member of the Council of Europe (not to be confused with the European Union), are elected by the council's parliamentary assembly.
In his article, Mr Clegg also said the UK would seek to reform the European Court of Human Rights when it takes over chairmanship of the Council of Europe in November - in order to improve the speed and consistency of the court's decisions.
Press for stronger engagement by the Council and other U.N. human rights mechanisms in Haiti, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo and partnered with Afghanistan to build international support for a resolution on preventing attacks on Afghan school children, especially girls.
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Even if an appeal is rejected by Turkish judges, Mr Ocalan's lawyers will probably bring the case before the Court of Human Rights, the legal arm of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, which is threatening to expel Turkey if it has Mr Ocalan hanged.
But none of the 'stans has become a member of the Council of Europe (another talking shop and human-rights guardian, based in Strasbourg).
Since then he has been a council member of the Association's Section on Legal Practice and its Human Rights Institute.
He also serves as Chair of the Partnership for Public Service, and he is a member of the Yale University Council and the Board and Executive Committee of the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta.
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It is true that one must be a member of the Council of Europe if one is to be considered for membership of the EU. But other than that, human rights are CoE matters, not EU. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg is not a European Union body, it is a Council of Europe one.
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