RES/34/34 Mandate of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

GE.17-05686(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session

27 February–24 March 2017

Agenda item 9

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 24 March 2017

34/34. Mandate of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the

Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and

Programme of Action

The Human Rights Council,

Recalling General Assembly resolution 56/266 of 27 March 2002, in which the

Assembly endorsed the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action,

Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2002/68 of 25 April 2002

and 2003/30 of 23 April 2003,

Recalling further Human Rights Council resolutions 1/5 of 30 June 2006, 11/12 of

18 June 2009 and 22/30 of 22 March 2013, in which the Council renewed and extended the

mandate of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the

Durban Declaration and Programme of Action,

Encouraging the Working Group to enhance its efforts towards the effective

realization of its mandate, and to report regularly in this regard to the Human Rights

Council and the General Assembly,

1. Decides to renew the mandate of the Intergovernmental Working Group on

the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action for a

further period of three years;

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

Rights to make the report of the Working Group on its fourteenth session available in order

to enable the Chair-Rapporteur to present it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fifth

session;

3. Requests the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner to provide the

Working Group with all the human, technical and financial assistance necessary for the

effective implementation of its mandate;

4. Decides to remain seized of this priority matter.

58th meeting

24 March 2017

[Adopted by a recorded vote of 46 to 1, with no abstentions. The voting was as follows:

In favour:

Albania, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Botswana,

Brazil, Burundi, China, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt,

El Salvador, Ethiopia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia,

Iraq, Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nigeria,

Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Rwanda,

Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, United

Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Against:

United States of America]