UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/RES/12/19 12 October 2009 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twelfth session Agenda item 3 PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council * 12/19. Draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights The Human Rights Council, Stressing that respect for all human rights, which are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, is of crucial importance for all policies and programmes to fight extreme poverty at the local and national levels, Taking note of the draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights, annexed to resolution 2006/9 adopted by the Subcommission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights on 24 August 2006, Recalling its resolutions 2/2 of 27 November 2006 and 7/27 of 28 March 2008, as well as its resolution 8/11 of 18 June 2008, in which it extended the mandate of the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, Noting the seminar held in Geneva on 27 and 28 January 2009 on the draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights, * The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its twelfth session (A/HRC/12/50), chap. I. GE.09-16710