22/20 Conclusions and recommendations of the special procedures - Report of the Secretary-General

GE.12-18704

Human Rights Council Twenty-second session

Agenda item 2

Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner

for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the

High Commissioner and the Secretary-General

Conclusions and recommendations of the special procedures

Report of the Secretary-General

1. The Human Rights Council, in its decision 2/102, requested the United Nations High

Commissioner for Human Rights to continue her activities in accordance with all previous

decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and to update relevant reports and

studies.

2. The Commission on Human Rights, in paragraph 12 (a) of its resolution 2004/76,

requested the Secretary-General to issue annually conclusions and recommendations of the

special procedures, so as to enable further discussion of their implementation. In paragraph

10 (c) of resolution 2004/76, the Commission also requested the United Nations High

Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to prepare a comprehensive and regularly

updated electronic compilation of special procedures recommendations by country, where

such did not yet exist. In paragraph 29 of the annex to General Assembly resolution 65/281,

the Assembly provided that the Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) would

continue to maintain information on special procedures in a comprehensive and easily

accessible manner.

3. The Secretary-General draws the attention of the Human Rights Council to the

compilation of conclusions and recommendations included in annual reports and relevant

addenda thereto submitted by the special procedures to the Council in 2012 at its

nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first sessions, which will be available on the OHCHR

website (www.ohchr.org).