The position of UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, currently held by Mary Robinson, the former President of…………….., is part of the UN Secretariat.

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• The position of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was established by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December...............
• The post of High Commissioner for Human Rights was first held by ...................of Ecuador.
• The United Nations Human Rights Council, created at the ............... World Summit to replace the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, has a mandate to investigate violations of human rights.
• In ................, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights was replaced with the United Nations Human Rights Council for the enforcement of international human rights law.
• The South African activist and former president …………….helped bring an end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for human rights.
• The UDHR was framed by members of the Human Rights Commission, with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt as Chair, who began to discuss an International Bill of Rights in................
• The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action in................., in terms of which the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was established.
• The term human rights probably came into use sometime between Paine's The Rights of Man and ................ 1831 writings in The Liberator, in which he stated that he was trying to enlist his readers in "the great cause of human rights".
• .............returned to South Africa in 1975 and was appointed Anglican Dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg -— the first black person to hold that position.
• In 1978 .............was the first black to hold the position of Dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg.