Summary: The 2007 elections to the Human Rights Council will be held on 17 May 2007. Fourteen new members will join.
The next election for Human Rights Council members will be held in New York on 14 May 2007. Fourteen of the current Members' terms will expire in May, and their seats will be filled with other States from the region, or by renewal of the current Member States' terms. (Members can serve two consecutive terms but will not be eligible for immediate re-election after that, in order to prevent de facto permanent membership.) The General Assembly elected the current 47 members in May 2006. It then randomly assigned term expirations to each member to set up the staggered term system. Thus, those States whose membership expires in 2007 will have had only a one-year term, and those with 2008 expirations will have had only a two-year term. (P) with voluntary pledge to support their candidacies. To read the pledges, go to the OHCHR website at: http://www.un.org/ga/61/elect/hrc/ African States (4 vacant seats): Angola - Egypt (P) - Madagascar - South Africa The current HRC members and their terms* are noted in the table below. Regional Group Term Expires 2007 Term Expires 2008 Term Expires 2009 African States (13 seats) Algeria, Morocco, South Africa, Tunisia Gabon, Ghana, Mali, Zambia Cameroon, Djibouti, Mauritius, Nigeria, Senegal Asian States (13 seats) Bahrain, India, Indonesia, Philippines Japan, Pakistan , Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka Bangladesh, China, Jordan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia Eastern European States (6 seats) Czech Republic, Poland Romania, Ukraine Azerbaijan, Russian Federation Latin American & Caribbean States (8 seats) Argentina, Ecuador Brazil, Guatemala, Peru Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay Western European & Other States (7 seats) Finland, Netherlands France, United Kingdom Canada, Germany, Switzerland More information
List of candidates
Asian States (4 vacant seats): India (P) - Indonesia (P) - Philippines (P) - Qatar (P)
Eastern European States (2 vacant seats): Belarus (P) - Slovenia (P)
Latin America and Caribbean States (2 vacant seats): Bolivia (P) - Nicaragua (P)
Western European and Other States (2 vacant seats): Denmark (P) - Italy (P) - Netherlands (P)
pdf: http://www.un.org/ga/61/elect/hrc/
2007 Human Rights Council Elections
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Link :
http://www.un.org/ga/61/elect/hrc/
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