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The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (before 1999, known as the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities)[1] was a subsidiary agency of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.[2] It was wound up in late August 2006.[3]
With the dissolution of the Commission on Human Rights and its replacement by the Human Rights Council in 2006, responsibility for the Sub-Commission passed from the former to the latter.[4] On 30 June 2006 the Council resolved to extend the Sub-Commission's mandate on an exceptional one-year basis and subject to the Council's subsequent review. The Sub-Commission met for the final time in August 2006;[5] among the recommendations it adopted at that session was one for the creation of a human rights consultative committee as a standing body to assist the Human Rights Council.[6]
- ^ Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
- ^ Claude, Inis L. (1951). "The Nature and Status of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities". International Organization. 5 (2): 300–312. doi:10.1017/S0020818300015344. ISSN 1531-5088.
- ^ UN ‘think tank’ winds up by proposing expert body to advise Human Rights Council, UN news centre, 25 August 2006
- ^ "Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights". United Nations Human Rights Councils. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
- ^ Staff. Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights concludes final session, United Nations press release, 25 August 2006
- ^ UN ‘think tank’ winds up by proposing expert body to advise Human Rights Council