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The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
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United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Defunct functional commission of the United Nations
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006. It was a subsidiary body of the UN Economic and Social Council…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
1947
Calendar year
1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)