RES/4/3 Intergovernmental Working Group on the Review of Mandates
Document Type: Final Resolution
Date: 2007 Apr
Session: 4th Regular Session (2007 Mar)
Agenda Item:
Topic: HRC Institutional Issues
- Main sponsors54
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Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
Côte d'Ivoire
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Eswatini
Tanzania, United Republic of
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
- Co-sponsors3
Human
Rights Council
Resolution 4/3. Intergovernmental Working Group on the Review of Mandates
The Human Rights Council,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which the Assembly decided that the Council should improve and rationalize all mandates, mechanisms, functions and responsibilities of the Commission on Human Rights in order to maintain a system of special procedures, expert advice and a complaint procedure,
Recalling its decision 1/104 of 30 June 2006, in which it decided to establish an open‑ended intergovernmental working group on the issue of reviewing and, where necessary, improving and rationalizing all human rights mandates, mechanisms, functions and responsibilities,
Recalling also its resolution 2/1 of 27 November 2006, in which it requested the Working Group to draft a code of conduct regulating the work of the special procedures, and also requested the Coordinating Committee of the special procedures to extend until the closure of the fourth session of the Human Rights Council the deadline for the submission of comments and inputs to the draft manual of special procedures,
Taking note of the draft manual of the United Nations human rights special procedures, revised by the Coordinating Committee of the special procedures, and the decision taken at the thirteenth meeting of the special procedures to submit the manual to Governments and other stakeholders for comments and inputs,
1. Requests the Coordinating Committee of the special procedures to extend until the closure of the fifth session of the Human Rights Council, which will be held from 11 to 18 June 2007, the deadline for the submission of comments on and inputs to the draft manual of special procedures;
2. Also requests the Working Group to present to the fifth session of the Council the outcome of its deliberations on the code of conduct regulating the work of the special procedures.
Adopted without a vote 26th
meeting
27 March 2007
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