{"id":19782,"date":"2025-01-22T22:34:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/iran-takes-leadership-of-key-unhrc-group\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T22:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:04:31","slug":"iran-takes-leadership-of-key-unhrc-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-takes-leadership-of-key-unhrc-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran takes leadership of key UNHRC group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5344081.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Iran has been elected to chair the Asia-Pacific Group, the largest regional group within the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">This leadership role, which commenced this week, will see Iran guiding the group&#8217;s activities until the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Ali Bahraini, Iran\u2019s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Office and International Organizations in Geneva, will spearhead this endeavor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">He will be responsible for coordinating and directing the group&#8217;s activities during Human Rights Council sessions and managing matters pertaining to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">As the largest group on the Human Rights Council, the Asia-Pacific Group plays a vital role in addressing and promoting human rights issues across the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Iran&#8217;s election to this position is considered a testament to its commitment to fostering constructive engagement in the area of human rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">This development follows Iran&#8217;s previous leadership roles within the International Labor Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization last year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/508966\/Iran-takes-leadership-of-key-UNHRC-group\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Iran has been elected to chair the Asia-Pacific Group, the largest regional group within the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). This leadership role, which commenced this week, will see Iran guiding the group&#8217;s activities until the end of 2025. Ali Bahraini, Iran\u2019s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Office and International &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[747,10,13,6923],"class_list":["post-19782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-human-rights","tag-iran","tag-politics","tag-vienna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}