United Nations
General Assembly
A/HRC/DEC/22/115
Distr.: General
15 April 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-second session
Agenda item 1
Organizational and procedural matters
Decision adopted by the Human Rights Council
22/115.
Human Rights Council webcast
At its 47th meeting, on 21 March 2013, the Human Rights Council decided to adopt
the text below:
“The Human Rights Council,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 16/21 of 25 March 2011 on the review
of the work and functioning of the Human Rights Council, in particular paragraph 61 of the
annex thereto, in which the Council decided to establish a task force to study the issues of
secretariat services, accessibility for persons with disabilities and use of information
technology, as envisaged in paragraphs 57, 58, 59 and 60 of the annex,
Recalling also Human Rights Council decision 19/119 of 22 March 2012, in which
the Council endorsed the report of the task force, annexed to decision 19/119, including its
recommendations with the modalities made in the report,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 66/246 of 24 December 2011, in
which the Assembly stressed the importance of an open, transparent and all-inclusive
United Nations, and decided to approve the live webcasting and subsequent storage of all
the formal meetings of its six Main Committees,
Taking note of the current arrangement between the Department of Public
Information, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and
the Information Service, which relies mainly on extrabudgetary resources to fund webcast
coverage of the meetings of the Human Rights Council,
Recalling the added value of the live webcasting and subsequent storage of the
formal meetings held in the framework of the sessions of the Human Rights Council and
the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, which constitute archive records of
Council meetings, in particular in view of the lack of summary records, as well as being an
important tool for public outreach,
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its twenty-second session (A/HRC/22/2), chap. I.
GE.13-13067
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