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South Koea was elected as a member of the UN Human Rights Council for a sixth time.
The UN General Assembly elected South Korea to the 47-member council in a direct and secrete ballot at UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday.
The country will serve the council for three years from 2025 to 2027.
The UN Human Rights Council was launched in 2006 when the Human Rights Commission under the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) was upgraded to an organization under the UN General Assembly.
The council promotes human rights and basic freedoms in the international community and plays a role in coping with serious and systematic human rights violations.
In this year’s election, six countries — South Korea, Cyprus, the Marshall Islands, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Thailand — applied for five slots, and five countries, excluding Saudi Arabia, were elected as members.