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Conference Facilities and Financial Support for the Human Rights Council

A/HRC/RES/8/1No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 2008.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics
Conference and Meeting ServicesDocumentsFinancial ResourcesResources AllocationTranslationWebcasts

What does this mandate say?

3 operative paragraphs
1
Reaffirms the need to ensure the provision of necessary financial resources to the Council and its working groups in order to discharge its mandate fully, as stipulated in General Assembly resolution 60/251 and implemented by Council resolution 5/1;
2
Expresses its concern at the delays in the submission of documents to the Council, including those relating to the universal periodic review, and in particular the delays in the translation of documents into the six official languages of the United Nations, and in this context requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference Services Division at the United Nations Office at Geneva to make an assessment of the situation and to report back to the Council at its ninth session with proposals for adequate measures, bearing in mind the necessity of maintaining financial efficiency, to address these problems;
3
Reaffirms that the Council will consider favourably the adoption of a decision on the webcasting of all public proceedings of its various working groups, taking into account the principles of transparency, equal treatment and non-selectivity and, in this context, requests the Department of Public Information of the United Nations Office at Geneva to make an assessment of the situation and to report back to the Council at its ninth session with proposals for adequate measures, including the necessary resources to establish a permanent capacity for webcasting.

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