28/19 Conclusions and recommendations of special procedures - Report of the Secretary-General

GE.14-24148

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Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth 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 special procedures

Report of the Secretary-General

1. The Human Rights Council, in its decision 2/102, requested the Secretary-General

and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue their activities in

accordance with all previous decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and

to update the relevant reports and studies.

2. The Commission on Human Rights, in 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. The Commission also

requested the High Commissioner to continue to prepare a comprehensive and regularly

updated electronic compilation of recommendations made by the special procedures by

country where such did not yet exist. In paragraph 29 of the annex to its resolution 65/281,

the General 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

conclusions and recommendations included in annual reports and the relevant addenda

thereto, submitted by the special procedures to the Council in 2014 at its twenty-fifth,

twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh sessions.*

* Available on the OHCHR website at www.ohchr.org.