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Commission on Human Rights

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The UNCHR was established as an intergovernmental organization in 1946, for the protection of fundamental human rights and liberties. The UNHCR was founded according to the Article 68 of the UN Charter that permits the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to set up functional commissions in economic and social fields for the promotion of human rights. The UNCHR was recognized as a subsidiary body of the ECOSOC. It was functioning as a plenary body, where the 53 member states meet not only with each other but also with human rights advocates and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to bring up their concerns about human rights, discuss the actual problems, and formulate solution methods. The role of the NGOs was quite comprehensive in the functioning of the CHR. The seats of the Commission were distributed among the regions. The regional groups were the African group with 15 seats, the Asian group with 11 seats, the Latin American and Caribbean group with 11 seats, the...

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  • Donnelly, J., & Whelan, D. J. (2017). International human rights. London: Hachette UK.

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  • Evans, T. (Ed.). (1998). Human rights fifty years on: A reappraisal. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

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  • Nickel, J. W. (1987). Making sense of human rights: Philosophical reflections on the universal declaration of human rights. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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  • Tolley, H. (1987). The UN commission on human rights (p. 47). Boulder/London: Westview Press.

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  1. Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

    Tuğba Bayar

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  2. University for Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica

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  3. Nemzetkozi Tanulmanyok Intezet, Rm 503, Corvinus Univ, Inst of Intl Studies, Budapest, Hungary

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Bayar, T. (2020). Commission on Human Rights. In: Romaniuk, S., Thapa, M., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_174-1

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