Nelson Mandela International Day Panel

A/HRC/RES/20/18View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 9 Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance : follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, published in 2012.

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6 subjects

Human Rights International Days Non-Violence Peace Reconciliation South Africa

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Decides to hold, at its twenty-first session, a high-level panel discussion on how the values of reconciliation, peace, freedom and racial equality can contribute to the promotion and protection of human rights;

Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to take the measures necessary to observe Nelson Mandela International Day;

Encourages all States Members of the United Nations and relevant stakeholders to engage fully in the panel discussion with a view to guarantee an appropriate balance and diversity of views on the issue;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to compile a summary of the outcome of the discussion and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-third session;

Decides to remain seized of this issue.

  The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its twentieth session (A/HRC/20/2), chap. I.

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