The United Nations commission on Human Rights is constituted of fifty three states. The commission attends a meeting once a year regularly for six weeks in Geneva. The participants include more than about three thousand delegates and these are varied type of participants. Everyone from members to observer states and people from NGOs participate.

The once in year meeting is not a stringent rule. The commission can also meet between the regular session in case most of the commission’s state members agree on this. The actual requirement of the meeting is also kept in mind.

The annual meeting of the Commission on human rights works towards adopting more than a hundred resolutions, requisite decisions as well as statement’s of chairperson on various matters related to the individual’s relevance in varied circumstances and regions. A lot of other people help in this task including the following:

1. Sub commission on the promotion and protection of Human Rights
2. Varied working groups
3. A whole network of individual experts
4. Rapporteurs
5. Representatives

Every group together requires to report on various issues on Human Rights.

Here are the main themes addressed by the Commission on human rights:

1. The right to self determination
2. Racism
3. The right to development
4. Issue of the human rights violation in occupied Arab territories and Palestine.
5. Human rights violations and fundamental freedoms all across the globe
6. Social, economic, civil, cultural and political rights
7. Questions related to detention and torture
8. Freedom of expression
9. Disappearances
10. Summary executions
11. Judiciary independence
12. Religious and impurity intolerance
13. Human rights related to children, women, minorities, migrant workers and displaced persons
14. Indigenous issues
15. Promotion and protection of human rights
16. Functions of sub commission, national institutions and treaty bodies
17. Advisory services and technical cooperation in Human Rights

The commission also makes significant efforts to find out the areas that require further development of existing standards in order to face fresh and growing concerns. The commission is busy working towards enforcing standards to protect against torture and various other types of in human or cruel treatment in custody via preventive visits to detention sites as well as to promote rights for indigenous population of this world.

Some other important subjects under consideration by the Commission on human rights include the following:

1. The right to development
2. Human rights
3. Structural adjustment programs

In case of any complaints emerging from individuals or any of the organizations registered to the sub commission’s working group on communications proves serious violation of human rights in any country, the matter can be revealed to the commission’s working group on situations as well as of the commission.

Human rights standards do not hold any value if not implemented. Hence, the commission is devoting a lot of time to analyze implementation related issues.

The success of Commission on human rights is marked by it’s ability to create a difference in the lives of individuals across the globe.

The commission takes prompt action to address any problem that’s identified and also works towards requesting the office of the high commissioner for human rights regularly.

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