Documents Considered by the General Assembly in Connection with the Agenda Item Entitled "Human Rights Questions"

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the General Assembly, published in 2006.

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

What’s in this document?

30 paragraphs

At its 64th plenary meeting, on 16 December 2005, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Third Committee,81 took note of the following documents submitted under the agenda item entitled “Human rights questions”:

Under sub-item (a):

(a) Report of the Human Rights Committee on its eighty-second to eighty-fourth sessions;82 (b)

Report of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families on its second session;83 (c)

Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture;84 (d)

Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment;85 (e)

Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery;86 (f)

Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;87 (g)

Report of the Secretary-General on human rights and mass exoduses;88 (h)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the chairpersons of the human rights treaty bodies on their seventeenth meeting;89 (i)

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on equitable geographical distribution in the membership of the human rights treaty bodies: analysis of the membership of the human rights treaty bodies since 1970.90

Under sub-item (b):

(a) Report of the Secretary-General on strengthening United Nations action in the field of human rights through the promotion of international cooperation and the importance of nonselectivity, impartiality and objectivity;91

_______________ 80 A/60/319. 81 A/60/509, para 5. 82 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/60/40). 83 Ibid., Supplement No. 48 (A/60/48). 84 A/60/215. 85 A/60/220. 86 A/60/273. 87 A/60/284. 88 A/60/325. 89 A/60/278. 90 A/60/351 and Corr.1. 91 A/60/134.

(b) Report of the Secretary-General on the right to development;92 (c)

Report of the Secretary-General on human rights and unilateral coercive measures;93 (d)

Report of the Secretary-General on human rights and terrorism;94 (e)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders;95 (f)

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;96 (g)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the independent expert of the Commission on Human Rights on the effects of economic reform policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights;97 (h)

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.98

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 Myanmar;99 (b)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967;100 (c)

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;101 (d)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the independent expert of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Burundi;102 (e)

Note by the Secretary-General regarding the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Sudan;103 (f)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation and the activities of her Office, including technical cooperation, in Nepal;104 (g)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism;105

_______________ 92 A/60/286. 93 A/60/305. 94 A/60/326. 95 A/60/339 and Corr.1. 96 A/60/348. 97 A/60/384. 98 A/60/399. 99 A/60/221. 100 A/60/271. 101 A/60/349. 102 A/60/354. 103 A/60/356. 104 A/60/359. 105 A/60/370.

(h) Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the issue of Palestinian pregnant women giving birth at Israeli checkpoints.106

Under sub-item (e):

(a) Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;107 (b)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan and on the achievements of the technical assistance in the field of human rights.108