In an earlier speech to the Human Rights Council (HRC) in February 2020, the UNSG noted that human rights were under assault the world over 3 He spoke on that occasion of political leaders who “divide people to multiply votes” and “the rise of racism, white supremacy and other forms of extremism ” Ramcharan makes the following recommendations to reinforce the UNHRS: (1) the UN Security Council (UNSC) should have on its agenda “a standing item on ‘Human Rights and International Peace and Security’” (p 160);(2) a world court should be established to “provide advisory opinions on whether particular policies or practices of a government are in conformity with international human rights law” (p 233);(3) the International Court of Justice should be enabled by the UN General Assembly to provide “authoritative determinations” of international human rights law (IHRL);(4) the International Law Commission (ILC) should be required to undertake thematic codification of IHRL;(5) the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) should act “as the human rights component of a global watch over human security” (p 99);(6) the HRC should convene each year three sessions with a thematic focus;(7) the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) should stress on the human rights of the poorest;(8) an annual fact-finding report should be published containing concise summaries of the reports submitted by the various mandate holders to the HRC;(9) “the periodicity for the submission of reports under the [universal periodic review (UPR)] system” should be increased (p 232);(10) UN human rights treaty bodies should “have one or more representatives present at various stages of the consideration of the Government's reports under the UPR process” (id );(11) “periodic Youth Assemblies for Reaffirmation of the Universality of Human Rights” should be organized (p 233);(12) a “World Report on National Protection systems” should be published every five years;and (13) “a high level annual lecture on ‘Human Rights and the World of the Future’” should be instituted (pp 230–34) The importance of the OHCHR's role was driven home to this reviewer when it filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court of India regarding the constitutional validity of a troubling Citizenship Amendment Act that negatively impacts certain groups of refugees 5 It thereby brought to the notice of the international community the discriminatory nature of legislation in violation of India's international human rights obligations The positive record of regional courts, such as Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the European Court of Human Rights, lends weight to the idea of creating such a court, even if it was confined to giving only advisory opinions