DEC/14/118 Missing persons

GE.10-14702

Human Rights Council Fourteenth session Agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms

Decision adopted by the Human Rights Council*

14/118 Missing persons

At its 34th meeting, on 17 June 2010, the Human Rights Council decided to adopt the following text:

“The Human Rights Council,

Recalling its resolution 7/28 of 28 March 2008 and all previous resolutions on missing persons adopted by the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights,

Recalling also its decision 12/117 of 1 October 2009, in which the Council requested the Advisory Committee to submit the study on best practices in the matter of missing persons to the Council at its fourteenth session,

1. Takes note of the progress report on best practices in the matter of missing persons submitted by the Advisory Committee (A/HRC/14/42);

2. Requests the Advisory Committee to finalize the study on best practices and to submit it to the Council at its sixteenth session.”

34th meeting 17 June 2010

[Adopted without a vote.]

* The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of

the Council on its fourteenth session (A/HRC/14/37), chap. I.