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The responsibility for promoting social justice is spread among different bodies under the United Nations system, some of whom are quite new. The three primary institutional bodies are the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Affairs Committee, and United Nations treaty-based bodies. The United Nations Human Rights Council was created by General Assembly resolution on April 3, 2006. G.A Res. 60/251, U.N. Doc. A/RES/60/251 (April 3, 2006).

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In backing away from the framework convention idea in his more recent work, Gostin, in our view, overestimates the difference in political cost between a framework convention and “a voluntary compact among states and their partners in business, philanthropy, and civil society to redress health inequalities.” Id., at 272.

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