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HUMAN RIGHT TO PEACE - GENDER

Power Point: http://www.wunrn.com/powerpoint/Human_Rights_10.pps

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Attached is the NGO Statement on the Right of Peoples to Peace: A/HRC/AC/5/NGO/2

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Website Link to UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee:

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/advisorycommittee.htm

 

UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ESTABLISHES DRAFTING

GROUP ON THE PROMOTION OF THE RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO PEACE

 

                   Human Rights Council Advisory Committee

 

                   5/2  Drafting Group on Promotion of the Right of Peoples to Peace

 

      Recalling Human Rights Council decision 14/3 of 17 June 2010, in which the Council requested the Advisory Committee to prepare a draft declaration on the right of peoples to peace and to submit a report on the progress thereon to the Council at its seventeenth session,

          Recalling that at the 8th meeting of its third session, on 7 August 2009, the Advisory Committee, recalling Human Rights Council resolution 11/4 of 17 June 2009 and all previous resolutions adopted by the Council, the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights on the promotion of the right of peoples to peace, had designated Miguel Alfonso Martínez, a member of the Advisory Committee, to prepare an initial working paper on the need to initiate a study with the purpose of, inter alia: (a) clarifying further the content and scope of this right; (b) proposing measures to raise awareness of the importance of realizing this right; (c) suggesting concrete actions to mobilize States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in the promotion of the right of peoples to peace,

          Taking note of the results of the expert workshop on the right of peoples to peace held by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 15 and 16 December 2010 (A/HRC/14/38),

          1.             Designates the Committee members Chinsung Chung, Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, Wolfgang Stefan Heinz and Mona Zulficar as members of the drafting group;

          2.             Notes that the drafting group elected Ms. Zulficar as chairperson and Mr. Heinz as rapporteur of the drafting group;

          3.             Notes that the drafting group and the full committee held meetings to discuss the matter under discussion;

          4.             Requests the drafting group to submit a draft progress report on the draft declaration on the right of peoples to peace to the sixth session of the Advisory Committee before its submission to the Council at its seventeenth session;

          5.             Requests the drafting group to prepare a questionnaire to consult with Member States, civil society, academia and all relevant stakeholders to be distributed after the discussion at the sixth session  of the Advisory Committee;

          6.             Encourages the various stakeholders to contribute to the work under way.

 

Adopted without a vote

7th meeting

6 August 2010

 

      

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