Here are  Back2Basics collections from today’s news items

B2B #1: From news – U.S. pulls out of United Nations Human Rights Council

United Nations Human Rights Council

1. UNHRC is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world
2. The UNHRC has 47 members elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis
3. The UNHRC was established by the UN General Assembly on March 15, 2006
4. The headquarters of UNHRC is in Geneva, Switzerland
5. The members of the General Assembly elect the members who occupy the UNHRC’s 47 seats. The term of each seat is three years, and no member may occupy a seat for more than two consecutive terms
6. The General Assembly can suspend the rights and privileges of any Council member that it decides has persistently committed gross and systematic violations of human rights during its term of membership
7. The UNHRC investigates allegations of breaches of human rights in UN member states, and addresses important thematic human rights issues such as freedom of association and assembly, freedom of expression, freedom of belief and religion, women’s rights, LGBT rights, and the rights of racial and ethnic minorities

Here’s a Factoid to brush up your concepts

Name : Sentinel – 5P

Details : specifically for the operational needs of the Copernicus programme · Europe’s environment monitoring programme

Agency : ESA