RES/30/12 Promotion of the right to peace

Human Rights Council Thirtieth session

Agenda item 5

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 1 October 2015

30/12. Promotion of the right to peace

The Human Rights Council,

Recalling all previous resolutions on the promotion of the right of peoples to peace

adopted by the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human

Rights Council, in particular Council resolution 20/15 of 5 July 2012,

Recalling also General Assembly resolution 39/11 of 12 November 1984 entitled

“Declaration of the Right of Peoples to Peace” and the United Nations Millennium

Declaration, as well as other relevant international documents,

Taking note of the report of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on a

draft United Nations declaration on the right to peace on its third session,A/HRC/29/45. held from 20 to

24 April 2015, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 27/17,

1. Decides that the working group shall hold its fourth session for five working

days with the objective of finalizing the declaration;

2. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human

Rights to provide the working group with the assistance necessary for it to fulfil its

mandate;

3. Invites States, civil society and all relevant stakeholders to contribute actively

and constructively to the work of the working group;

4. Requests the working group to prepare a report and to submit it to the Human

Rights Council, to be made available in all official languages of the United Nations, for

consideration at its thirty-third session.

41st meeting

1 October 2015

[Adopted by a recorded vote of 33 to 12, with 2 abstentions. The voting was as follows:

In favour:

Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Botswana,

Brazil, China, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Gabon,

Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Maldives, Mexico, Morocco,

Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi

Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela

(Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam

Against:

Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Montenegro, Netherlands,

Republic of Korea, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, United

Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America

Abstaining:

Albania, Portugal]