RES/30/8 Contribution of the Human Rights Council to the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS in 2016
Document Type: Final Resolution
Date: 2015 Oct
Session: 30th Regular Session (2015 Sep)
Agenda Item: Item3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
Topic: Right to health
- Main sponsors4
- Co-sponsors76
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Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Andorra
Angola
Australia
Belgium
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Bulgaria
Cameroon
China
Canada
Costa Rica
Croatia
Denmark
Djibouti
Comoros
Chile
Côte d'Ivoire
Cuba
Cyprus
Ecuador
El Salvador
Finland
Estonia
France
Ghana
Germany
Georgia
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
Monaco
Montenegro
Mexico
Malta
Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Moldova, Republic of
North Macedonia
Norway
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Poland
Romania
Sierra Leone
San Marino
Senegal
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Turkey
Uruguay
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Human Rights Council Thirtieth session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 1 October 2015
30/8. Contribution of the Human Rights Council to the high-level
meeting on HIV/AIDS in 2016
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 12/27 of 2 October 2009, 15/22 of 30
September 2010 and 16/28 of 25 March 2011, and relevant Commission on Human Rights
resolutions,
Reaffirming the Political Declarations on HIV/AIDS adopted by the General
Assembly on 2 June 2006 and 8 July 2011, and the Declaration of Commitment on
HIV/AIDS, adopted by the Assembly on 27 June 2001,
Recalling the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights referred to
in the above-mentioned resolutions and annexed to Commission on Human Rights
resolution 1997/33 of 11 April 1997, which provides guidance to ensuring the respect,
protection and fulfilment of human rights in the context of HIV,
Recalling also the panel discussion held on 20 March 2012 at the nineteenth session
of the Human Rights Council on giving a voice to people living with or affected by
HIV/AIDS,
Welcoming the consensus reached on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, which contains a goal to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
at all ages, and which includes the target of ending the epidemic of AIDS by 2030,
Welcoming also the decision of the General Assembly of 30 June 2014 to convene a
high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS in 2016,
undertake the necessary consultations to determine the modalities and organizational
arrangements for such a meeting during the seventieth session of the Assembly,
Reaffirming that the full realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for
all is an essential element in the global response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, including in
the areas of prevention, care, support and treatment, and that such a response reduces
people’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and prevents stigma and related discrimination against
people living with or at risk of HIV/AIDS,
1. Decides to convene a panel discussion at its thirty-first session on the
progress in and challenges of addressing human rights issues in the context of efforts to end
the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the
International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights;
2. Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to liaise
with States and all stakeholders, including relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, funds
and programmes, treaty bodies, special procedure mandate holders, national human rights
institutions and civil society, with a view to ensuring their participation in the panel
discussion;
3. Requests the High Commissioner to prepare a report on the panel discussion
in the form of a summary and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-second
session, and decides to bring the report to the attention of the General Assembly ahead of
the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS in 2016;
4. Invites the General Assembly to take the summary report into consideration
ahead of and during the high-level meeting, in accordance with the modalities and
organizational arrangements, to be agreed pursuant to Assembly decision 68/555.
41st meeting
1 October 2015
[Adopted without a vote.]