DEC/10/117 Publication of reports completed by the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

Human Rights Council

Tenth Session

Decision 10/117. Publication of reports completed by the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

At its 45th meeting, on 27 March 2009, the Human Rights Council decided, by a recorded vote of 29 to 3, with 15 abstentions, to adopt the following text:

“The Human Rights Council,

Bearing in mind that all mandates, mechanisms, functions and responsibilities of the Commission on Human Rights, including the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, were assumed, as of 19 June 2006, by the Council, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 60/251,

Recalling the functions of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee as described by the Council in its resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007,

Decides that all reports of the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights mandated by the Commission on Human Rights that have been completed and submitted to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights pursuant to the resolutions and decisions of the Subcommission at its fifty-eighth session be issued as United Nations documents.”

45th meeting 27 March 2009

[Adopted by a recorded vote of 29 to 3, with 15 abstentions. The voting was as follows:

In favour: Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Egypt, France, Gabon, Germany, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Uruguay;

Against: Brazil, India, Mauritius;

Abstaining: Angola, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Ghana, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines, Russian Federation, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia.]

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