National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman, Justice HL Dattu, has emerged as the unanimous choice for appointment as a member of the International Coordinating Committee of NHRIs (ICC) Bureau in Geneva. "No other NHRI from the Asia-Pacific region nominated a candidate against him to fill the position of a member vacated by the representative of NHRI of South Korea. NHRC, India, will now be representing Asia-Pacific Region along with Mongolia, Qatar and Australia," said an NHRC statement. The ICC Bureau is an important human rights body that serves as the Management Committee of the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC). The ICC Bureau implements all the decisions of the ICC General Meetings and directs the operations of the ICC between these meetings. The ICC Bureau consists of sixteen 'A' status NHRIs, four from each region, namely, Americas, Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific. NHRC, India, has been an active Member of the ICC and regularly taking part in its activities, including Annual General Meetings.