(VOVWORLD) - The UN General Assembly on Wednesday elected 18 new members to the 47-member Human Rights Council, to serve three-year terms beginning January 1, 2025.
 A UN General Assembly session in New York on September 22, 2024 (Photo: Kyodo/VNA) |
Seats on the Human Rights Council are allocated on the basis of regional groups for the sake of geographical representation.
The 18 countries elected by a secret ballot are: Benin, Bolivia, Colombia, Cyprus, Czechia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Iceland, Kenya, Marshall Islands, Mexico, North Macedonia, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and Thailand.
They will replace outgoing members whose term of office is set to expire on December 31, 2024. The outgoing members are: Argentina, Benin, Cameroon, Eritrea, Finland, Gambia, Honduras, India, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Montenegro, Paraguay, Qatar, Somalia, United Arab Emirates, and the United States.