Cooperation with Regional Human Rights Organizations

A/HRC/RES/52/15View PDF

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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 2023.

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2 versions · 2023–2026

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Cooperation Between Organizations Environment Human Rights Advancement Regional Organizations

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Welcomes the progress made by Governments in the establishment of regional and subregional organizations working in the field of human rights, and their achievements in all regions of the world;

Notes with appreciation the critical role played by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in advancing cooperation between international organizations and regional organizations in all their variety and at all their levels of formalization, working in the field of human rights;

Also notes with appreciation the progress made towards the implementation of its resolution 43/17 as described in the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and encourages regional organizations to continue to enhance their cooperation with the United Nations and among themselves;

Welcomes the report of the High Commissioner on the workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, held on 18 and 19 October 2022 in Geneva;

Also welcomes the holding of the annual meetings of focal points for cooperation between United Nations and regional human rights organizations, and takes note with appreciation of their outcomes;

Further welcomes the dedicated fellowship programme for the staff members of regional human rights organizations to gain experience in the United Nations human rights system and to enhance capacity-building and cooperation among them;

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 organizations’ focal points for cooperation and the dedicated fellowship programme;

Requests the High Commissioner to hold in 2025 a workshop on regional human rights organizations to take stock of developments since the workshop held in 2022, including a thematic discussion on the role of regional organizations in relation to the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, based on concrete and practical experience of regional organizations working in the field of human rights, 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 organizations, as well as Member States, observers, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations;

Also requests the High Commissioner to present to the Human Rights Council, at its sixty-first session, a report containing a summary of the discussions held at the above-mentioned workshop and the progress made towards the implementation of the present resolution.

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