Local Government and Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/33/8View 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 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 2013–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/57/12

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/HRC/RES/57/12	Local government and human rights	2,877	38%Compare
2022	A/HRC/RES/51/12	Local government and human rights	1,667	50%Compare
2020	A/HRC/RES/45/7	Local government and human rights	1,240	54%Compare
2018	A/HRC/RES/39/7	Local government and human rights	766	58%Compare
2016	A/HRC/RES/33/8	Local government and human rights	653	17%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Conferences Human Rights Local Government Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Decides to convene between its thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth sessions, taking advantage of existing capacities, a panel discussion on the role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights, the objective of which will be to identify ways in which local government can promote, protect and fulfil human rights effectively, particularly in the context of implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in close cooperation with the national Government;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to liaise with States and all stakeholders, including relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, the treaty bodies, the relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council, national human rights institutions and civil society, with a view to ensuring their participation in the panel discussion;

Also requests the High Commissioner to prepare a report on the panel discussion in the form of a summary, and to submit the report to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-eighth session;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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