Establishment of a United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region

A/RES/60/153View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2006.

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Arab Countries Capacity Building Centres Host Country Relations Human Rights Advancement Human Rights Education Human Rights Institutions Institution Building Institutional Machinery Location of Offices Qatar Regional Cooperation Southwest Asia Technical Cooperation

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Takes note with satisfaction of the continuing cooperation and assistance of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the further strengthening of the existing regional arrangements and regional machineries for the promotion and protection of human rights, in particular through technical cooperation which is aimed at national capacity-building, public information and education, with a view to exchanging information and experience in the field of human rights;

Welcomes the initiative of the Government of Qatar to host a United Nations human rights training and documentation centre for South-West Asia and the Arab region, which will be under the supervision of the Office of the High Commissioner, with the mandate to undertake training and documentation activities according to international human rights standards and to support such efforts within the region by Governments, United Nations agencies and programmes, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations;

Requests the Secretary-General and the Office of the High Commissioner to give their support to the establishment of a United Nations human rights training and documentation centre for South-West Asia and the Arab region, to conclude an agreement with the host country regarding its establishment and to make available resources for the establishment of the centre;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to consider the question further at its sixty-first session.

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