4/89 Conclusions and recommendations of special procedures - Report of the Secretary-General

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General Assembly Distr. GENERAL

A/HRC/4/89 19 March 2007

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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Fourth session Agenda item 2

IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251 OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL”

Conclusions and recommendations of 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 with the fulfilment of her activities, in accordance with all previous decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and to update the relevant reports and studies. On the current issue of compilation of special procedures’ recommendations by country, a comprehensive annual report (E/CN.4/2006/99) was submitted to the sixty-second session of the Commission pursuant to resolution 2004/76. The information in the report remains relevant. The Office of the High Commissioner understands decision 2/102 to preserve the previous annual reporting cycle in respect of this issue until otherwise decided by the Council. The present report accordingly addresses developments in the compilation of special procedures’ recommendations over the last year.

2. In paragraph 10 (c) of resolution 2004/76, the Commission on Human Rights requested the High Commissioner to continue to prepare a comprehensive and regularly updated electronic compilation of special procedures’ recommendations by country, where such does not yet exist, including the relevant comments of States thereto as published within the United Nations system.

3. The compilation is available on the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (www.ohchr.org).

4. In paragraph 12 (a) of the same resolution, the Commission requested the Secretary-General to issue annually and sufficiently early, in close collaboration with the special procedures, their conclusions and recommendations, so as to enable further discussion of their implementation at subsequent sessions of the Commission.

5. In view of United Nations rules prohibiting the republication of material that has already been issued for general distribution, it has been decided to compile in the annex to this report the references to the pertinent paragraphs containing the conclusions and recommendations in the annual reports submitted by special procedures to the Human Rights Council at its fourth session. The relevant reports are posted on the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (www.ohchr.org) as and when available.

6. The present report makes references to special procedures’ reports issued before 14 March 2007. Reports issued after that date are not included. They will be included in a revised version of this report that will be presented at the fifth session of the Human Rights Council.

Annex

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF SPECIAL PROCEDURES

Conclusions and recommendations of the independent expert appointed by the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Haiti (A/HRC/4/3, paras. 88-95).

Observations and recommendations of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi (A/HRC/4/5, paras. 78-96).

Conclusions and recommendations of the independent expert on technical cooperation and advisory services in Liberia (A/HRC/4/6, paras. 37-49).

Concluding remarks of the independent expert on human rights and international solidarity (A/HRC/4/8, paras. 47-50).

Conclusions and recommendations of the independent expert on the effects of economic reform policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights (A/HRC/4/10, paras. 70-78). Conclusions and recommendations of the Personal Representative of the High Commissioner on the situation of human rights in Cuba (A/HRC/4/12, paras. 32-35).

Concluding observations and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (A/HRC/4/14, paras. 79-87).

Orientations of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (A/HRC/4/15, paras. 70-72).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus (A/HRC/4/16, paras. 51-65).

Conclusions of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (A/HRC/4/17, para. 63).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living (A/HRC/4/18, paras. 32-33).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (A/HRC/4/19, paras. 54-65).

Concluding remarks and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (A/HRC/4/20, paras. 63-66).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief (A/HRC/4/21, paras. 48-56).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children (A/HRC/4/23, paras. 61-63).

Conclusions of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants (A/HRC/4/24, paras. 138-140).

Conclusions of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism (A/HRC/4/26, paras. 83-97).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (A/HRC/4/27, paras. 64-86).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (A/HRC/4/28, paras. 90-93).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education (A/HRC/4/29, paras. 81-85).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food (A/HRC/4/30, paras. 68-69).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (A/HRC/4/31, paras. 78-86).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people (A/HRC/4/32, paras. 88-92); and conclusions and recommendations on the best practices carried out to implement the recommendations contained in the annual reports of the Special Rapporteur (A/HRC/4/32/Add.4, paras. 77-101).

Conclusions of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (A/HRC/4/33, paras. 46-47 and 58-60).

Conclusions of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences (A/HRC/4/34, paras. 67-72).

Conclusions of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (A/HRC/4/35, paras. 82-88); concluding observations on human rights policies and management practices: results from questionnaire surveys of Governments and Fortune Global 500 firms (A/HRC/4/35/Add.3, paras. 99-103); and conclusion on Business recognition of human rights: Global patterns, regional and sectoral variations (A/HRC/4/35/Add.4, paras. 209-218).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia (A/HRC/4/36, paras. 96-108).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders (A/HRC/4/37, paras. 105-113).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons (A/HRC/4/38, paras. 82-85); and recommendations for action stemming from the First Regional Conference on Internal Displacement in West Africa (A/HRC/4/38/Add.4, paras. 67-70).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (A/HRC/4/40, paras. 73-80).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (A/HRC/4/41, paras. 495-504).

Conclusions and recommendations 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 (A/HRC/4/42, paras. 72-76).

Conclusion and recommendations of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict (A/HRC/4/45, paras. 36-39).

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