The year 2026 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), a milestone that offers an important opportunity for reflection, critique, and forward-thinking analysis. Since its inception in 2006, the Council has become a central organ of the international human rights system: producing resolutions, convening special sessions, mandating investigations, and serving as a global forum for the contestation and articulation of human rights norms through its innovative peer review mechanism, the Universal Periodic Review. Yet it has also faced sustained criticism for politicization and variable impact. This edited volume will bring together…