Panel Discussion on the Negative Impact of Corruption on the Enjoyment of Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/21/13View PDF

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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 2012.

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4 subjects

Corruption Crime Prevention Human Rights Inter-Agency Cooperation

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Decides to convene, at its twenty-second session, from within existing resources, a panel discussion on the issue of the negative impact of corruption on the enjoyment of human rights;

Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize the above-mentioned panel discussion and to liaise with States, relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, treaty bodies and special procedures, in particular the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the United Nations Development Programme, international organizations, in particular the International Anti-Corruption Academy, relevant regional human rights mechanisms, as well as with civil society, non-governmental organizations and national human rights institutions, with a view to ensuring their participation in the panel discussion;

Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare and submit a summary report on the panel discussion to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-third session.

  The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its twenty-first session (A/HRC/21/2), chap. I.

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