Regional Arrangements for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/30/3View 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 2015.

What other versions does this mandate have?

24 versions · 1978–2020

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/43/17

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2020	A/HRC/RES/43/17	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights	626	80%Compare
2017	A/HRC/RES/34/17	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights	653	56%Compare
2015	A/HRC/RES/30/3	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights	826	66%Compare
2013	A/HRC/RES/24/19	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights	637	58%Compare
2011	A/HRC/RES/18/14	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights	450	63%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

5 reports · 1978–2010

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2010	A/65/369	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/63/170
2006	A/61/513	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/59/196
2004	A/59/323	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/57/210
2002	A/57/283	Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/55/105
1978	A/33/219	Regional arrangements for the promot ion and protection of human rights report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/32/127

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Civil Society Conferences Cooperation Between Organizations Human Rights Activists Human Rights Advancement Regional Cooperation

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the progress made by Governments in the establishment of regional and subregional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, and their achievements in all regions of the world;

Also welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights,² held on 8 and 9 October 2014 in Geneva, including its conclusions and recommendations;

²A/HRC/28/31.

Further welcomes the holding of the meetings of focal points for cooperation between United Nations and regional human rights mechanisms, and takes note with appreciation of their outcomes;

Takes note with appreciation of the adoption of the Addis Ababa road map on cooperation between the special procedures of the Human Rights Council and the special mechanisms of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, in Addis Ababa, on 18 January 2012 and of the consultation on the review of the Addis Ababa road map held between special procedure mandate holders of the Council and of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Luanda on 27 April 2014;

Also takes note with appreciation of the holding of a dialogue between the chairs of United Nations human rights treaty bodies and African human rights mechanisms in Addis Ababa in June 2012; the joint declaration on the reinforcement of cooperation between the Secretariat of the Council of Europe and the Office of the High Commissioner signed on 26 September 2013; the strengthened cooperation between the Office of the High Commissioner and the International Organization of la Francophonie, including with a view to providing support for French-speaking countries in the context of the universal periodic review and other human rights mechanisms, and the renewal on 9 October 2013 of the cooperation agreement between the two organizations for the period 2014-2015; the two-day Workshop on Regional Mechanisms: Best Practices on Implementation of Human Rights, organized by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and held on 17 and 18 November 2014 in Bangkok; and the dialogue between the chairs of the human rights treaty bodies and representatives of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and all judges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in San José, during the annual meeting of chairs of human rights treaty bodies in June 2015; and encourages all of them to continue to enhance their cooperation;

Further takes note with appreciation of the critical role played by the Office of the High Commissioner in advancing cooperation between international and regional human rights mechanisms;

Requests the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner to provide the necessary resources to enable the Office of the High Commissioner to support the above-mentioned activities appropriately, in particular the continuous functioning of the Office’s focal point for cooperation with regional mechanisms;

Requests the High Commissioner to hold, in 2016, a workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights to take stock of developments since the workshop held in 2014, including a thematic discussion on interactions with civil society and human rights defenders, based on concrete and practical experience of regional mechanisms, in order to share information on best practices, lessons learned and new possible forms of cooperation, with the participation of relevant experts from international, regional, subregional and interregional human rights mechanisms, as well as Member States, observers, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations;

Also requests the High Commissioner to present to the Human Rights Council, at its thirty-fourth session, a report containing a summary of the discussions held at the above-mentioned workshop and on the progress towards the implementation of the present resolution.

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