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Document Type: Final Decision

Date: 2008 Sep

Session: 9th Regular Session (2008 Sep)

Agenda Item:

Human Rights Council

Decision 9/101. Missing persons

At its 22nd meeting, on 24 September 2008, the Human Rights Council decided, without a

vote, 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 Commission on Human Rights,

Welcoming the panel discussions on the question of missing persons held at its

ninth session,

Looking forward to the summary of the panel’s deliberations to be prepared by the

High Commissioner,

Requests the Advisory Committee to prepare subsequently a study on the best

practices in the matter of missing persons and to submit that study to the Council at its

twelfth session.”

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