Commission on Human Rights has been the central architect of the work of the United Nations in the field of human rights. Commission on Human Rights procedures and mechanisms are mandated to examine, monitor and publicly report either on human rights situations in specific countries or on major phenomena of human rights violations world-wide. The main themes addressed by the Commission are: the right to self-determination; racism; the right to development; the question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world; economic, social and cultural rights; civil and political rights, including freedom of expression, the independence of the judiciary, impunity and religious intolerance. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, composed of 53 States, meets each year in regular session in March/April for six weeks in Geneva. Over 3,000 delegates from member and observer States and from non-governmental organizations participate. The Commission can also meet exceptionally between its regular sessions in special session, provided that a majority of States members of the Commission so agree, mindful of the need for the Commission on Human Rights to deal with urgent and acute human rights situations in the most expeditions way.
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