-- Background: from commission to council
-- Reforming the UN principal charter-based human rights body
-- Creation and mandate
-- International relations theories
-- Roles and functions of international organisations
-- Politicisation of international organisations
-- The United States and the Human Rights Council
-- The Council's inaction on Darfur
-- Innovative mechanisms
-- Conclusion.
-- Reforming the UN principal charter-based human rights body
-- Creation and mandate
-- International relations theories
-- Roles and functions of international organisations
-- Politicisation of international organisations
-- The United States and the Human Rights Council
-- The Council's inaction on Darfur
-- Innovative mechanisms
-- Conclusion.