2/L.19 The use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination
Document Type: Draft Decision
Date: 2006 Oct
Session: 2nd Regular Session (2006 Sep)
Agenda Item: Item2: Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
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A/HRC/2/L.19 3 October 2006
Original: ENGLISH
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Second session Agenda item 2
IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251 OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL”
Cuba: draft decision
2006/… The use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination
The Human Rights Council, recalling resolution 2005/2 of 7 April 2005 of the Commission on Human Rights and taking note of the report of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination (E/CN.4/2006/11), decides:
(a) To authorize the Working Group to hold three sessions per year;
(b) To request the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene a high-level round table to discuss the fundamental question of the role of the State as the primary holder of the monopoly on the use of force, with the objective of facilitating a critical understanding as to the responsibilities of different actors in the current context, including private military and security companies, and their respective obligations for the protection and promotion of human rights.
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