12/39 Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 10/22 (“Combating defamation of religions”) - Note by the Secretariat
Document Type: Final Report
Date: 2009 Jul
Session: 12th Regular Session (2009 Sep)
Agenda Item: Item9: Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
GE.09-14522 (E) 100709
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General Assembly Distr. GENERAL
A/HRC/12/39 8 July 2009
Original: ENGLISH
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twelfth session Agenda item 9
RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND RELATED FORMS OF INTOLERANCE: FOLLOW-UP TO AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DURBAN DECLARATION AND PROGRAMME OF ACTION
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 10/22 (“Combating defamation of religions”)
Note by the Secretariat
The Human Rights Council, in resolution 10/22 of 26 March 2009 entitled “Combating defamation of religions”, requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to report to the Human Rights Council on the implementation of this resolution at its twelfth session.
On 10 June 2009, a note verbale was sent by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, inviting Member States to forward their contributions to the report on the implementation of resolution 10/22 to the Secretariat. In order for the report of the High Commissioner to include the broadest number of contributions, the High Commissioner requests that the submission of her report to the Human Rights Council be delayed to its thirteenth session.
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