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UN Human Rights Council
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- The U.N. General Assembly has elected Iceland to replace the United States on the U.N. Human Rights Council
- The election came following the United States decision to leave UN Human Rights Council
- Iceland has for the first time been elected to the Human Rights Council
- Iceland was nominated by the group of Western nations
- The 47-member Human Rights Council allocates a specific number of seats for each region of the globe.
- Iceland’s term begins immediately and it will serve until Dec. 31, 2019.
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