United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)

 UNHRC is a UN System inter-governmental body responsible for promoting and protecting human rights around the world.

 The UN General Assembly elects the members who occupy the UNHRC's 47 seats for 3 years period and no member may occupy a seat for more than two consecutive terms.

 The UNHRC is the successor to the UN Commission on Human Rights and is a subsidiary body of the UN General Assembly.

 The council works closely with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and engages the United Nations' special procedures.

 The General Assembly, via a two-thirds majority, can suspend the rights and privileges of any Council member that it decides has persistently committed gross and systematic violations of human rights during its term of membership.

 The Universal Periodic Review of the UNHRC assesses the human rights situations in all 193 UN Member States.

 The Universal Periodic Review takes into account information’s from different sources, one of them NGOs.