The UN Human Rights Council: Five Things to Know

The UN Human Rights Council has taken an increasingly prominent role in pressing for global action on the Syrian crisis. This marks a continuing revival of the world’s preeminent rights body, which replaced a discredited rights commission. CFR Senior Fellow Stewart M. Patrick looks at five chief things to know about the reconstituted forum: - In 2006, the United Nations decided to dissolve the UN Commission on Human Rights, “which had become a haven for human rights abusers and an embarrassment.“ The Oba