(Source: United Nations General Assembly) As the Human Rights Council was moving into its tenth year, its record had testified to a high level of responsiveness while it continued to be actively engaged in cases of urgent and chronic violations, that body's president told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today while presenting its annual report during an interactive dialogue the preceded a general discussion. Summarizing decisions made in the course of 2015, Human Rights Council President Joachim Rücker said actions had included taking up 17 panel discussions on issues ranging from the death penalty to unilateral coercive measures, renewing country-specific mandates...
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