Establishment of Funds for the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism of the Human Rights Council

A/HRC/RES/6/17View PDF

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A document of the Human Rights Council, published in 2008.

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1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 4	Supporting the Human Rights Council, its subsidiary bodies and mechanisms	56

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1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 4	Supporting the Human Rights Council, its subsidiary bodies and mechanisms	56	—

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7 subjects

Developing Countries Financial Assistance Human Rights Institutional Machinery Least Developed Countries Technical Cooperation Trust Funds

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Requests the Secretary-General to establish a universal periodic review Voluntary Trust Fund to facilitate the participation of developing countries, particularly least developing countries, in the universal periodic review mechanism;

Also requests the Secretary-General to establish a new financial mechanism called the Voluntary Fund for Financial and Technical Assistance to be administered jointly with the universal periodic review Voluntary Trust Fund mentioned in paragraph 1, in order to provide, in conjunction with multilateral funding mechanisms, a source of financial and technical assistance to help countries implement recommendations emanating from the universal periodic review in consultation with, and with the consent of, the country concerned;

Urges all member States, observers and other stakeholders of the Council to support the operationalization of the above funds;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to take the necessary measures with a view to expeditiously operationalizing the mechanisms;

Decides to follow up on the matter under the same agenda item at its seventh session.

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