Draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/15/19View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2010.

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2 versions · 2009–2010

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2010	A/HRC/RES/15/19	Draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights	768	21%Compare
2009	A/HRC/RES/12/19	Draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights	380	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Conferences Consultations Experts Guidelines Human Rights Poverty Poverty Mitigation Principles Report Preparation Socially Disadvantaged Persons

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the progress report of the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty on the draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights;³

³A/HRC/15/41.

Affirms that the fight against extreme poverty must remain a high priority for the international community;

Invites the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:

To seek the views, comments and suggestions on the progress report on the draft guiding principles submitted by the independent expert of States, relevant United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organizations, United Nations treaty bodies, relevant special procedures, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, especially those working with people living in extreme poverty, and other relevant stakeholders;

To organize, within existing resources, in Geneva before June 2011, a two-day consultation on the progress report on the draft guiding principles with the independent expert and relevant stakeholders, including representatives of States, development and human rights practitioners and organizations at the local, national, regional and international levels;

To prepare and to submit to the Council, no later than its nineteenth session, an analytical compilation on the basis of the submissions received in writing and made at the above-mentioned consultation;

Invites the independent expert, on the basis of the report of the Office of the High Commissioner, to pursue further work on the draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights with a view to submitting a final draft of the revised guiding principles to the Council at its twenty-first session, in order to allow the Council to take a decision on the way forward with a view to the adoption by 2012 of guiding principles on the rights of persons living in extreme poverty.

The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its fifteenth session (A/HRC/15/60), chap. I.

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