The HRC: its establishment and working rulesThe UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is the main UN body dealing with human rights questions. The Human Rights Council has created or renewed the mandates of various “special procedures.” The special procedures are experts appointed to monitor human rights around priority themes or in specific countries with serious human rights problems. The human rights discourse also gives them a prior and paramount place in the protection of human rights. HRC stance promotes duplication of human rights investigations and in a way diminishes the role of national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights. Over the years, the United Nations Human Rights Council has faced severe criticism over its ineffectiveness in solving human rights issues.

Source: Ethiopian News December 31, 2021 10:53 UTC