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Regional Arrangements for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/34/17View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2017.

What other versions does this mandate have?

24 versions · 1978–2020
This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/43/17
  • 2020A/HRC/RES/43/17Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rightsLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2017A/HRC/RES/34/17Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rightsCompare with previous version
  • 2015A/HRC/RES/30/3Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rightsCompare with previous version
  • 2013A/HRC/RES/24/19Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rightsCompare with previous version
  • 2011A/HRC/RES/18/14Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rightsCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

iExtracted automatically from each entity’s budget submission.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics
Anti-Discrimination MeasuresCapacity BuildingConferencesCooperation Between OrganizationsHuman Rights AdvancementRegional Cooperation

What does this mandate say?

9 operative paragraphs
1
Welcomes the progress made by Governments in the establishment of regional and subregional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, and their achievements in all regions of the world;
2
Also welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, held on 4 and 5 October 2016 in Geneva, including its conclusions and recommendations;
3
Further welcomes the holding of the meetings of focal points for cooperation between United Nations and regional human rights mechanisms, and takes note with appreciation of their outcomes;
4
Notes with appreciation the progress towards the implementation of its resolution 30/3 of 1 October 2015 as described in the report of the High Commissioner, and encourages the regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights and other organizations, such as the International Organization of la Francophonie, to continue to enhance their cooperation;
5
Also notes with appreciation the critical role played by the Office of the High Commissioner in advancing cooperation between international and regional human rights mechanisms;
6
Requests the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner to provide the resources necessary to enable the Office of the High Commissioner to support the above-mentioned activities appropriately, in particular the annual meetings of the regional mechanisms’ focal points for cooperation;
7
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to expand its cooperation with regional human rights mechanisms by creating, as of 2018, a dedicated programme for the said mechanisms to gain experience in the United Nations human rights system in order to enhance capacity-building and cooperation among them;
8
Requests the High Commissioner to hold, in 2019, a workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights to take stock of developments since the workshop held in 2016, including a thematic discussion on the role of regional arrangements in the combat against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and in the implementation of the commitments in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, based on concrete and practical experience of regional mechanisms, in order to share information on best practices, lessons learned and possible new forms of cooperation, with the participation of relevant experts from international, regional, subregional and interregional human rights mechanisms, as well as Members States, observers, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations;
9
Also requests the High Commissioner to present to the Human Rights Council, at its forty-third session, a report containing a summary of the discussions held at the above-mentioned workshop and the progress towards the implementation of the present resolution.

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