{"id":13054,"date":"2023-07-13T05:58:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T00:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13054"},"modified":"2025-04-01T23:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:27:36","slug":"united-nations-human-rights-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/united-nations-human-rights-council\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Human Rights Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UN Human Rights Council adopted the draft resolution <strong>\u2018Countering religious hatred constituting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence\u2019<\/strong>, with 28 members voting in favour, seven abstentions and 12 nations voting against.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Key facts about United Nations Human Rights Council<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>intergovernmental body<\/strong> within the United Nations whose mission is to promote and <strong>protect human rights around the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was created <strong>by the General Assembly<\/strong> on 15 March 2006 by replacing the Commission on Human Rights.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>has 47 members elected<\/strong> for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis.<\/li>\n<li>The members of the Council serve for a period of three years and <strong>are not eligible for immediate re-election after serving two consecutive terms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Council&#8217;s Membership is based on <strong>equitable geographical distribution<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Function:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It investigates allegations of breaches of human rights in UN member states, and addresses important thematic human rights issues such as freedom of association and assembly, <strong>freedom of expression, freedom of belief and religion, women&#8217;s rights, LGBTI rights,<\/strong> and the rights of racial and ethnic minorities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are rights?<\/h3>\n<p>Rights refer to the entitlements and freedoms that individuals possess by virtue of being human. They are considered fundamental to the dignity, well-being, and equality of all people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/un-rights-body-passes-pakistan-motion-on-religious-hatred-after-quran-burning-in-sweden-india-votes-in-favour\/article67071945.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>In U.N. Human Rights Council vote, India stands against desecration of Quran<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Human Rights Council is an intergovernmental body within the United Nations whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}