High-Level Panel Discussion to Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

A/HRC/RES/21/20View PDF

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A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 8 Follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, published in 2012.

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Decides to convene, at the first day of the high-level segment of its twenty-second session, a high-level panel discussion to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, with a particular focus on its implementation, as well as on achievements, best practices and challenges in this regard;

Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize the panel discussion and to liaise with States, relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, treaty bodies, special procedures and regional human rights mechanisms, as well as with civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and national human rights institutions, with a view to ensuring their participation in the panel discussion;

Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a report on the panel discussion in the form of a summary.

  The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its twenty-first session (A/HRC/21/2), chap. I.

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