Human Rights Council - Election Human Rights Watch has now added tables showing the results of the 2006 election for the Human Rights Council. Click on a Region to view its candidates
The table above links to charts summarizing aspects of the human rights records of candidate countries in each of the five U.N. regional groups, including their cooperation with U.N. human rights investigators and their voting records on recent human rights resolutions in the U.N. General Assembly and the former Commission on Human Rights (if they were members). Further links offer more detailed information on each candidate. Human Rights Watch posted this information to assist U.N. member states and civil society in evaluating candidates for the new Human Rights Council based on the standards in its founding resolution.
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