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Friday, October 28, 2016

Cuba, China, Saudi Arabia win election to UNHRC, Russia loses Friday Oct 28,2016

Cuba, China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia were among 14 members elected  to the 47-member council on Friday Oct 28,2016 by the UN General Assembly to the United Nation's Human Rights Council(UNHRC) but Russia failed to garner enough votes to win the re-election amid rights groups campaign against its role in the war in Syria.





The 193-member General Assembly voted to elect Brazil, China, Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, Hungary, Iraq, Japan, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tunisia, UK and the US to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council.

The elected members will serve in the 47-member Council for a three year term beginning January 01, 2017. India is a member of the human rights body and its term will expire in 2017.

China, Cuba, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and the UK were seeking re-election to the Council as their terms were set to expire in December.

Russia too was seeking re-election but did not garner enough votes to win.

The Council members are elected directly and individually by secret ballot by the majority of the members of the UNGA.

The Council membership is based on equitable geographical distribution, and seats are distributed among regional groups of Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, Latin American and
Caribbean, Group of Western Europe and other states.

The members of the Council serve a period of three years and are not be eligible for immediate re-election after two consecutive terms

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