Equal Participation in Political and Public Affairs

A/HRC/RES/39/11View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2018.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 2014–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/57/17

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/HRC/RES/57/17	Equal participation in political and public affairs	2,288	55%Compare
2021	A/HRC/RES/48/2	Equal participation in political and public affairs	2,227	12%Compare
2018	A/HRC/RES/39/11	Equal participation in political and public affairs	412	16%Compare
2016	A/HRC/RES/33/22	Equal participation in political and public affairs	1,758	67%Compare
2015	A/HRC/RES/30/9	Equal participation in political and public affairs	1,454	76%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Equal Opportunity Guidelines Political Participation Popular Participation Public Information Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Presents these guidelines as a set of orientations for States, as well as for, where appropriate, other relevant stakeholders in relation to the effective implementation of the right to participate in public affairs;

Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to disseminate and promote the use of the guidelines and to provide technical cooperation and capacity-building to States upon their request regarding the use of the guidelines;

Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare, in consultation with States and all other relevant stakeholders, a follow-up report on good practices and challenges faced by States in using the guidelines, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its forty-eighth session;

Encourages Governments, local authorities, relevant United Nations bodies, specialized agencies, funds and programmes, other intergovernmental organizations and national human rights institutions to give due consideration to the guidelines in the formulation and implementation of their policies and measures concerning equal participation in political and public affairs.

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