RES/14/8 Regional cooperation for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asia-Pacific Region

GE.10-14716

Human Rights Council Fourteenth session Agenda item 10 Technical assistance and capacity-building

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*

14/8 Regional cooperation for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asia-Pacific Region

The Human Rights Council,

Recalling resolution 1993/51 of 9 March 1993 of the Commission on Human Rights and its subsequent resolutions concerning regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights,

Recalling also Council decision 3/102 of 8 December 2006, as well as its resolutions 6/25 of 28 September 2007 and 12/15 of 1 October 2009,

Noting with appreciation the commitment of States in the Asia-Pacific region to developing and strengthening national capacities for the promotion and protection of human rights, in accordance with the Tehran Framework of Regional Technical Cooperation Programme for Asia and the Pacific,

Welcoming the efforts of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to develop partnerships for the implementation of its activities to enhance national capacities of States in the region to promote and protect human rights,

Welcoming the Bali Action Points concluded at the fourteenth Workshop on Regional Cooperation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asia- Pacific Region, held from 10 to 12 July 2007, which served as a basis to reflect on the progress and achievements made under the Asia-Pacific Framework, including the four Tehran pillars, and to define further priorities for regional cooperation for the promotion and protection of human rights,

Reaffirming the fact that regional arrangements play an important role in promoting and protecting human rights and should reinforce universal human rights, as recognized in international human rights instruments,

* 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.

Welcoming the establishment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, and encouraging it to play an active role in the promotion and protection of human rights in the South-East Asian region,

Welcoming also the convening of the fifteenth annual workshop on Regional Cooperation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region, held in Bangkok from 21 to 23 April 2010, and the adoption of the Bangkok Action Points,

1. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report containing the conclusions of the fifteenth annual Workshop on Regional Cooperation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region, and to submit it to the Council for its consideration at its fifteenth session;

2. Decides to convene the next session of the Workshop in Maldives in 2012.

34th meeting 17 June 2010

[Adopted without a vote.]