2006 Elections

UN Human Rights Council

The following States were initially elected to the Council:

Africa	Asia	Eastern Europe	Latin American & Caribbean	Western Europe & Others
Algeria (2007)	Bahrain (2007)	Azerbaijan (2009)	Argentina (2007)	Canada (2009)
Cameroon (2009)	Bangladesh (2009)	Czech Republic (2007)	Brazil (2008)	Finland (2007)
Djibouti (2009)	China (2009)	Poland (2007)	Cuba (2009)	Germany (2009)
Gabon (2008)	India (2007)	Romania (2008)	Ecuador (2007)	Netherlands (2007)
Ghana (2008)	Indonesia (2007)	Russian Federation (2009)	Guatemala (2008)	Switzerland (2009)
Mali (2008)	Japan (2008)	Ukraine (2008)	Mexico (2009)	United Kingdom (2008)
Mauritius (2009)	Jordan (2009)		Peru (2008)
Morocco (2007)	Malaysia (2009)		Uruguay (2009)
Nigeria (2009)	Pakistan (2008)
Senegal (2009)	Philippines (2007)
South Africa (2007)	Republic of Korea (2008)
Tunisia (2007)	Saudi Arabia (2009)
Zambia (2008)	Sri Lanka (2008)

Campaign for a UN Democracy Caucus urges Community of Democracies to support democracies in next elections to the new Human Rights Council

On 11th April, members of the Campaign for a UN Democracy Caucus sent a letter Community of Democracies countries urging them to support only countries that respect and promote human rights in the elections to the new UN Human Rights Council to be held on May 9th. The letter, endorsed by more than fifty organizations from around the world, called upon democratic governments to cooperate within their regional groupings and within the UN Democracy Caucus at the UN General Assembly to oppose candidacies of countries with a poor human rights record.

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