In August 2010, the Administration of President Barack Obama submitted the first National Report on the human rights record of the United States of America to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC), for its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR); On 5 November 2010, a 35-member U.S. delegation was in Geneva for the actual 3-hour review before the 47-Member HRC (and as many of the other 192 UN Member Nations as wanted to be present).

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