In the last few years there have been several critical milestones in acknowledging the centrality of human rights to sustainably addressing the scourge of maternal death and morbidity around the world, including from the United Nations Human Rights Council. In 2012, the Council adopted a resolution welcoming a Technical Guidance on rights-based approaches to maternal mortality and morbidity, an...

On the 18th June the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a resolution (A/HRC/8/L.18) on ‘The elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members.’ This historic resolution was sponsored by 59 member states and made specific reference to key earlier documents, namely the Universal of Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the Internation...

Having developed into a political and ideological concept since the 1990s, global governance has evolved as priority of European Union. Although EU promotes idea state decentralization within at UN, in itself is paramount. This article examines structure complex networks UN Human Rights Council. The scholarly problem contradiction between key decision-making role HRC increasingly social system....