Reports Considered by the General Assembly in Connection with the Agenda Item Entitled "Promotion and Protection of Human Rights"

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the General Assembly, under agenda item 67 Promotion and protection of human rights, published in 2007.

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

What’s in this document?

32 paragraphs

At its 81st plenary meeting, on 19 December 2006, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Third Committee,84 took note of the following report submitted under the agenda item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”:

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;85 and took note also of the following documents:

Under sub-item (a):

(a) Report of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families on its third and fourth sessions;86 (b)

Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture;87

_______________ 77 A/61/439 and Corr.1, para. 21. 78 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 41 and corrigendum (A/61/41 and Corr.1). 79 A/61/440, para. 7. 80 A/61/376. 81 A/61/490. 82 A/61/442, para. 22. 83 A/61/333. 84 A/61/443, para. 5. 85 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 36 (A/61/36). 86 Ibid., Supplement No. 48 (A/61/48). 87 A/61/226.

(c) Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment;88 (d)

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;89 (e)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;90 (f)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the chairpersons of the human rights treaty bodies on their eighteenth meeting.91

Under sub-item (b):

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

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

Report of the Secretary-General on the question of enforced or involuntary disappearances;94 (d)

Report of the Secretary-General on combating defamation of religions;95 (e)

Report of the Secretary-General on the establishment of a United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab region;96 (f)

Report of the Secretary-General on missing persons;97 (g)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism;98 (h)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders;99 (i)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health;100

(j) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief;101

_______________ 88 A/61/279. 89 A/61/354. 90 A/61/259. 91 A/61/385. 92 A/61/211. 93 A/61/287. 94 A/61/289. 95 A/61/325. 96 A/61/348. 97 A/61/476. 98 A/61/267. 99 A/61/312. 100 A/61/338. 101 A/61/340.

(k) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers;102

(l) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the independent expert on the effects of economic reform policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights;103

(m) Note by the Secretary-General on the reports of the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty.104

Under sub-item (c):

(a) Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Turkmenistan;105

(b) Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Uzbekistan;106

(c) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons;107

(d) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi;108

(e) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar;109

(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;110

(g) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan;111

(h) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967;112

(i) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the progress report of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.113