Human Rights Council
Resolution 7/5.
Mandate of the independent expert on human rights
and international solidarity
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human
Rights and the Human Rights Council on the issue of the human rights and international
solidarity, including Commission resolution 2005/55 of 20 April 2005,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March
2006,
Recalling its resolutions 5/1 entitled “Institution-building of the United Nations
Human Rights Council” and 5/2 entitled “Code of Conduct for Special Procedures
Mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council”, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the
mandate-holder shall discharge his/her duties in accordance with these resolutions and
their annexes,
Recalling also the importance, in view of the promotion and protection of
international solidarity, of the declarations and programmes of action of international
conferences such as the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna in 1993, the
International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in
2002, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in
Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2002, and the World Conference on Disaster Reduction,
held in Kobe, Japan, in 2005,
Reaffirming that the widening gap between economically developed and
developing countries is unsustainable and that it impedes the realization of human rights
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