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"Contents" [2020] ELECD 408; in Tistounet, Eric (ed), "The UN Human Rights Council" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) v

Book Title: The UN Human Rights Council

Editor(s): Tistounet, Eric

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents


Foreword by Louise Arbour vii
Foreword by Coly Seck ix
Acknowledgements xii

Introduction 1

1 The Human Rights Council in a nutshell 6
1.1 The UPR mechanism 8
1.2 Special Procedures 13
1.3 Commissions of inquiry, commissions on human rights,
fact-finding missions and other ad hoc investigations 16
1.4 The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee and
the Complaints Procedure 18
1.5 Interaction between the various human rights bodies
and mechanisms 23

2 The Human Rights Council functions 29
2.1 The inadequacy of the responses of the Commission
on Human Rights to gross and massive violations of
human rights 33
2.2 Elements of a human rights geology: how the Council
addresses human rights issues 42

3 The Human Rights Council governance: the role and
functions of the President and his/her Bureau 95
3.1 The traditional roles and functions of the President and
his/her Bureau 96
3.2 The additional responsibilities of the Council President
and the Bureau 99
3.3 The New York­Geneva gap 118
3.4 Representing the Council outside Geneva 121




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4 The Human Rights Council stakeholders 123
4.1 Member States 123
4.2 Groups of States 133
4.3 Observer States 137
4.4 Other observers 139

5 The structure of sessional and intersessional activities 151
5.1 The sessional activities 154
5.2 Organizational Meeting and Sessions 191
5.3 Special Sessions 193
5.4 Intersessional ...