Documents Considered by the General Assembly in Connection with Human Rights Questions

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the General Assembly, published in 2005.

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3 subjects

Documents Human Rights Monitoring Programme Implementation

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25 paragraphs

At its 74th plenary meeting, on 20 December 2004, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Third Committee,87 took note of the following documents submitted under the agenda item entitled “Human rights questions”:

80 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 41 and corrigendum and addendum (A/59/41 and Corr.1 and Add.1). 81 A/59/500, para. 15. 82 A/59/257. 83 A/59/258. 84 A/59/277. 85 A/59/501, para. 24. 86 A/59/375. 87 A/59/503, para. 7. Under sub-item (a):

(a) Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families;88

(b) Report of the Secretary-General on the effective implementation of international instruments on human rights, including reporting obligations under international instruments on human rights;89

(c) Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery;90

(d) Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment;91

(e) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the chairpersons of the human rights treaty bodies on their sixteenth meeting;92

Under sub-item (b):

(a) Report of the Secretary-General on the right to development;93

(b) Report of the Secretary-General on the protection of migrants;94

(d) Report of the Secretary-General on the Subregional Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa;96

(e) Report of the Secretary-General on Khmer Rouge trials;97

(f) Report of the Secretary-General on human rights and unilateral coercive measures;98

(g) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief;99

88 A/59/306. 89 A/59/308. 90 A/59/309. 91 A/59/310. 92 A/59/254. 93 A/59/255. 94 A/59/328. 95 A/59/402. 96 A/59/403. 97 A/59/432 and Add.1. 98 A/59/436. 99 A/59/366.

(h) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the human rights of migrants;100

(i) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders;101

(j) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health;102

Under sub-item (c):

(a) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967;103

(b) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on assistance to Sierra Leone in the field of human rights;104

(c) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the independent expert of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan;105

as well as

(d) Oral report of the independent expert of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;106

(e) Oral report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea;106

(f) Oral report of the independent expert of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Sudan.107

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