Human Rights Council
IDSN monitors the work and mechanisms of the world's leading human rights body, the Human Rights Council, with a particular focus on caste discrimination. In association with its members IDSN facilitates civil society submissions and interventions in the Council in support of relevant studies and reviews, in particular the UN study on discrimination based on work and descent.
IDSN urges all UN member states, in particular the members of the Human Rights Council, to support the UN study and ensure follow-up to the study by the Council.
> Read IDSN's recommendations to the Human Rights Council
Background information
The Human Rights Council is a charter-based body with 47 member states responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of all human rights. The Human Rights Council, which replaced the former Commission on Human Rights, was created pursuant to General Assembly resolution 60/251. The transition has implied an extensive reform agenda following the institution-building package in resolution adopted in June 2007.
Some of the human rights mechanisms established under the Human Rights Council provide opportunities for making inputs and recommendations on the situation of Dalits:
