Table of Contents

• • Acronyms and abreviations
  • Introduction

• I. International Human Rights legal and institutional framework

• • I.1 International legal framework
  • I.2 International institutional framework

• II. The Human Rights Council

• • II.1 The 2005 UN reform initiative and its impact on the universal human rights system
  • II.2 Mandate and composition of the Human Rights Council: General Assembly Resolution 60/251
  • II.3 Main mechanisms of the Human Rights Council
  • II.4. Agenda, rules of procedure and methods of work of the Human Rights Council
  • II.5 The 2011 Human Rights Council Review
  • II.6 Assessment of the Human Rights Council’s work more than a decade after its creation

• III. The role of individual States in the Human Rights Council. The Argentine experience

• • III.1 State engagement with the Human Rights Council
  • III.2. Relevance of regional and other groups in the adoption of decisions and resolutions
  • III.3. The role of individual States
  • III.4 Argentina in the institution-building process of the Council in 2006 and its review in 2011
  • III.5 Main initiatives of Argentina in the Human Rights Council

• IV. Human rights in Argentina in the recent past and the impact on its role at the international level, in particular in the Human Rights Council

• • IV.1 Argentina and the heavy weight of the past: the dark years of the dictatorship
  • IV.2 The return to democracy and the long path to combat impunity
  • IV.3 A positive change in the 21st century
  • IV.4 Argentina and the new human rights agenda in the democratic era
  • IV.5 Argentina in the Human Rights Council
  • IV.6 Argentina’s Contribution to the development of a new human rights agenda
• • V. Conclusions
  • Bibliography