Intergovernmental Process of the General Assembly on Strengthening and Enhancing the Effective Functioning of the Human Rights Treaty Body System

A/RES/66/254View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 124 United Nations reform : measures and proposals, published in 2012.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Human Rights Human Rights Institutions Institutional Machinery Non-Governmental Organizations Treaty-Monitoring Bodies

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Requests the President of the General Assembly to launch, within the framework of the Assembly, an open-ended intergovernmental process, no earlier than in April 2012, to conduct open, transparent and inclusive negotiations on how to strengthen and enhance the effective functioning of the human rights treaty body system;

Also requests the President of the General Assembly, in this regard, to appoint two co-facilitators, in accordance with established procedures and practices, to assist him in this process;

Decides that, in its deliberations, the aforementioned open-ended intergovernmental process shall take into consideration the relevant proposals on strengthening and enhancing the effective functioning of the human rights treaty body system, including those contained in the reports of the Secretary-General2 and the compilation report to be prepared by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and in this regard invites the High Commissioner to present the compilation report to the General Assembly no later than June 2012;

Reaffirms that the deliberations in the framework of the open-ended intergovernmental process shall be open to all States Members of the United Nations, observer States, relevant intergovernmental organizations and relevant United Nations bodies;

Requests the President of the General Assembly to establish appropriate channels of communication with the President of the Human Rights Council regarding the open-ended intergovernmental process on strengthening and enhancing the effective functioning of the human rights treaty body system referred to in paragraph 1 above;

Also requests the President of the General Assembly to work out separate informal arrangements, after consultation with Member States, that would allow the open-ended intergovernmental process to benefit from the inputs and expertise of the human rights treaty bodies, national human rights institutions and relevant non-governmental organizations, bearing in mind the intergovernmental nature of the process referred to in paragraph 1 above;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the open-ended intergovernmental process with all necessary support from within existing resources for the duration of its mandate;

Requests the President of the General Assembly to report by the end of its sixty-sixth session on the deliberations and recommendations of the open-ended intergovernmental process for further consideration by the Assembly, including consideration of a possible extension of the process.

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