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The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the UN system made up of 47 States responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe. The Council was created by the UN General Assembly on 15 March 2006 with the main purpose of addressing situations of human rights violations and make recommendations on them Website: www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/

	Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances	6 February 2012
Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports
	Report of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment	18 January 2012
Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports
	Report of the independent expert on minority issues	3 January 2012
Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports
	Report of the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living, and on the Right to Non-Discrimination in This Context	26 December 2011
Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports
	Report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief	22 December 2011
Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports
	Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography	21 December 2011
Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports
	Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders	21 December 2011
Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports
	Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality : report of the Secretary-General	19 December 2011
Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports
	Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities : report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights	9 December 2011
Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports
	Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity	17 November 2011
Category: Reference Documents | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports

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