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India has been elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the 2026-28 term, marking the country's seventh stint connected the Geneva-based rights body.
Announcing the results of the predetermination held connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025), the UNHRC successful a societal media station said India's three-year word volition statesman connected January 1, 2026.
India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Parvathaneni Harish, successful a societal media post, thanked each delegations for their overwhelming support.
"India was elected to the Human Rights Council for the word 2026-28 for the seventh clip today," helium said.
This election, the diplomat said, reflects India's unwavering committedness to quality rights and cardinal freedoms.
"We look guardant to service this nonsubjective during our tenure," helium said.
The UN Human Rights Council consists of 47 subordinate states elected by the UN General Assembly for three-year presumption nether equitable geographic organisation rules.
Council seats are allocated to the 5 determination groups arsenic follows: African States, 13 seats; Asia-Pacific States, 13 seats; Eastern European States, 6 seats; Latin American and Caribbean States, 8 seats; and Western European and different States, 7 seats.
India, which past served connected the UNHRC successful 2024 pursuing 2 consecutive terms, took a spread this twelvemonth earlier seeking predetermination for the 2026-28 word successful compliance with rules that barroom a 3rd consecutive tenure.
India has been a subordinate of the Council continuously since its instauration successful 2006, but for 3 mandatory breaks successful 2011, 2018, and 2025. In the archetypal Council predetermination successful 2006, India was elected with the highest fig of votes, securing 173 of 190 votes. Since then, India has had six terms, successful 2006–2007, 2008–2010, 2012–2014, 2015–2017, 2019–2021 and 2022–2024.
Angola, Chile, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Iraq, Italy, Mauritius, Pakistan, Slovenia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Vietnam are the different members elected for the three-year word opening January 1, 2026, the UNHRC said.
