26/47 Open-ended intergovernmental working group on a draft United Nations declaration on the right to peace - Note by the Secretariat

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Human Rights Council Twenty-sixth session Agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms

Open-ended intergovernmental working group on a draft United Nations declaration on the right to peace

Note by the Secretariat

1. In its resolution 23/16, the Human Rights Council decided that the open-ended intergovernmental working group on a draft United Nations declaration on the right to peace would hold its second session for five working days in 2014, before the twenty-fifth session of the Council. Also in resolution 23/16, the Council requested the Chairperson- Rapporteur of the working group to conduct informal consultations with Governments, regional groups and relevant stakeholders before its second session, to prepare a new text on the basis of the discussions held during the first session and of the informal consultations, and to present the text prior to the second session of the working group for consideration and further discussion. The Council also requested the working group to prepare a report on progress made and to submit it to the Council for its consideration at its twenty-sixth session.

2. The second session of the open-ended working group has been rescheduled to be held from 30 June to 4 July 2014.

3. The working group will submit a report on its second session to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh session.