7/49 Conclusions and recommendations of special procedures

GE.08-11789 (E) 200308

UNITED NATIONS

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General Assembly Distr. GENERAL

A/HRC/7/49 19 March 2008

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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Seventh session Agenda item 2

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND REPORTS OF THE OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER AND OF 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 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. The Office of the High Commissioner understands decision 2/102 to preserve the previous annual reporting cycle until otherwise decided by the Council.

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 for 2007 will be available on the special procedures web page of the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (www.ohchr.org).

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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, references to the pertinent paragraphs containing the conclusions and recommendations in the annual reports submitted by special procedures to the Human Rights Council are compiled in the annex to this report.

6. The present report makes reference to the reports of special procedures issued for the sixth and seventh sessions of the Human Rights Council. The relevant reports are posted on the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (www.ohchr.org).

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Annex

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF SPECIAL PROCEDURES

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief (A/HRC/6/5, paras. 49-52).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people (A/HRC/6/15, paras. 60-77).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism (A/HRC/6/17, paras. 69-74).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (A/HRC/7/2, paras. 421-433).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (A/HRC/7/3, paras. 68-76).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (A/HRC/7/4, paras. 74-84).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food (A/HRC/7/5, paras. 76-77).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences (A/HRC/7/6, paras. 116-118).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group on the question of 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/7/7, paras. 56-60).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (A/HRC/7/8, paras. 70-78).

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, particularly economic, social and cultural rights (A/HRC/7/9, paras. 42-47).

Conclusions of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (A/HRC/7/11, paras. 124-127).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants (A/HRC/7/12, paras. 60-75).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (A/HRC/7/14, paras. 67-85).

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Conclusions and recommendations of the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty (A/HRC/7/15. This report contains no separate section with conclusions and recommendations).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living and on the right to non-discrimination in this context (A/HRC/7/16, paras. 93-115).

Conclusions of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (A/HRC/7/17. This report contains no separate section with conclusions and recommendations).

Concluding remarks and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (A/HRC/7/18, paras. 88-101).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (A/HRC/7/19, paras. 72-83).

Recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (A/HRC/7/20, paras. 81-83).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights (A/HRC/7/21, paras. 66-70).

Recommendations and conclusions of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan (A/HRC/7/22, para. 79).

Conclusions and recommendations of the independent expert on minority issues (A/HRC/7/23, paras. 77-90).

Recommendations of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (A/HRC/7/25, paras. 64-69).

Conclusions and recommendations of the independent expert appointed by the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Somalia (A/HRC/7/26, para. 81).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders (A/HRC/7/28, paras. 96-104).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia (A/HRC/7/42, paras. 99-104).

Conclusions and recommendations of the independent expert on technical cooperation and advisory services in Liberia (A/HRC/7/67, paras. 71-80).

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