Documents Considered by the General Assembly in Connection with the Question of the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the General Assembly, under agenda item 69 Promotion and protection of human rights, published in 2012.

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10 versions · 2009–2019

This is an older version — the most recent is A/DEC/73/525

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2016	A/DEC/70/533	Documents considered by the General Assembly in connection with the question of the promotion and protection of human rights	—	—
2015	A/DEC/69/536	Documents considered by the General Assembly in connection with the question of the promotion and protection of human rights	—	—
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2 subjects

Human Rights Advancement Human Rights Monitoring

What’s in this document?

26 paragraphs

At its 89th plenary meeting, on 19 December 2011, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Third Committee,96 took note of the following documents submitted under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”:

Under sub-item (a):

Report of the Human Rights Committee on its 100th to 102nd sessions;97 (a)

Report of the Committee against Torture on its forty-fifth and forty-sixth sessions;98 (b)

(c) Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery;99

(d) Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture;100

(e) Report of the Secretary-General on measures to improve further the effectiveness, harmonization and reform of the treaty body system;101

(f) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Chairs of the human rights treaty bodies on their twenty-third meeting;102

(g) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report on the Special Fund established by the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.103

_______________ 92 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/66/18). 93 A/66/328. 94 A/66/461, para. 20. 95 A/66/172. 96 A/66/462, para. 5. 97 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/66/40), vol. I and vol. II (Parts One and Two). 98 Ibid., Supplement No. 44 (A/66/44). 99 A/66/217. 100 A/66/276. 101 A/66/344. 102 A/66/175. 103 A/66/259.

Under sub-item (b):

(a) Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance;104

(b) Report of the Secretary-General on the programme of activities for the International Year for People of African Descent;105

(c) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health;106

(d) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the note by the Secretariat providing an overview of the activities carried out by the outgoing Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants;107

(e) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights;108

(f) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education;109

(g) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living and on the right to non-discrimination in this context;110

(h) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights;111

(i) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children;112

(j) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons;113

(k) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers;114

(l) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression;115

(m) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.116

_______________ 104 A/66/284. 105 A/66/342 and Add.1. 106 A/66/254. 107 A/66/264. 108 A/66/265. 109 A/66/269. 110 A/66/270. 111 A/66/271. 112 A/66/283. 113 A/66/285. 114 A/66/289. 115 A/66/290. 116 A/66/330.

Under sub-item (c):

(a) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967;117

(b) Note by the Secretary-General on the reports of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and on the report of the independent international commission of inquiry on the situation of human rights in Côte d’Ivoire.118

Under sub-item (d):

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.119