What is the UN Human Rights Council?

Upholding Human Rights Around the Globe

Everything you wanted to know about international human rights violations law, and you were afraid to ask.

In its in-depth overview of the creation and functioning of the UN Human Rights Council Mr. Eric Tistounet, Chief of the Human Rights Council Branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, explores the procedures and the history of the UN body. Mr. Tistounet was the first Secretary to the UN Human Rights Council when it was created in 2006. He has worked at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN agency for Human Rights, for nearly three decades — so knows the organization inside out.

In this book, with evocative metaphors on the history of the genesis and procedures of the Human Rights Council, Mr. Tistounet draws analogies with the workings of the human body, and how dissecting the human body was prohibited in the Middle Ages, yet knowledge in the medical arts could only advance when understanding of the human body, its function and syst…