Handbook on Transition from the UN Commission on Human Rights to the UN Human Rights Council

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      A New Chapter for Human Rights

      A handbook on issues of transition from the Commission on Human Rights
to the Human Rights Council

      The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) and
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) have developed this handbook to facilitate
the participation of NGOs and human rights defenders at the newly formed
Human Rights Council. The handbook highlights the major issues of transition
from the Commission to the Council. It briefly describes the old system
under the Commission, what the Council needs to consider and do during its
first year, and some of the key issues, and existing suggestions and
choices. The handbook also identifies the main questions around each of
these issues to generate discussion and reflection on what NGOs and
defenders hope can be achieved through the system, what features they think
would be useful, and better options.

      We have some spare copies of the Handbook available for those of you
who have limited access to the Internet. For a copy of the Handbook, please
contact us at information@ishr-sidh.ch and give us a brief description of
your organisation and its mandate.

            To download the entire handbook please click here
            Download individual chapters (all chapters are available as PDF
documents):
              Cover page, contents and foreword
            Chapter 1. Introduction
            Chapter 2. Agenda and Rules of Procedure
            Chapter 3. Special Procedures
            Chapter 4. Sub-Commission and System of Expert Advice
            Chapter 5. Complaint Procedure
            Chapter 6. Universal Periodic Review
            Chapter 7. Participation of NGOs and NHRIs
            Chapter 8. Pending Standard-Setting
            Chapter 9. Issues
            Annexes
            There are a series of annexes with key documents, compilations
and tables of information that have been prepared to accompany the handbook.
To view the list of annexes click here.

      For information about the contributors, ISBN and copyright please
click here.

      Implementing organisations

      For further information on the implementing organisations please click
here.

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