A/HRC/10/29
10.
Urges relevant United Nations human rights mechanisms and the appropriate
treaty bodies and encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees to continue to collect information on the issue of human rights and arbitrary
deprivation of nationality from all relevant sources and to take account of such information,
together with any recommendations thereon, in their reports and activities conducted within
their respective mandates;
11.
Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a report on the right to nationality,
with emphasis on the issue of arbitrary deprivation of nationality, including in cases of
States succession, taking into account the information gathered pursuant to Council
resolution 7/10, similar studies conducted by the Subcommission for the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights and other relevant sources of information, and to present it to
the Council at its thirteenth session;
12.
Decides to continue its consideration of this matter at its thirteenth session
under the same agenda item.
42nd meeting
26 March 2009
[Adopted without a vote. See part II, chap. III.]
10/14
Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the
Optional Protocols thereto
The Human Rights Council,
Emphasizing that the Convention on the Rights of the Child must constitute the
standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, and bearing in mind the
importance of the Optional Protocols to the Convention, as well as other human rights
instruments,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions on the rights of the child of the Commission on
Human Rights, the Council and the General Assembly, the most recent being Council
resolution 7/29 of 28 March 2008 and Assembly resolution 63/241 of 23 December 2008,
Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General on the status of the Convention on
the Rights of the Child (A/HRC/10/86),
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Convention in 2009 and taking this
opportunity to call for its effective implementation by all States parties to ensure that all
children may fully enjoy all their human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Bearing in mind paragraph 47 of Council resolution 7/29 and particularly the
Council’s decision to consider an omnibus resolution on the rights of the child every four
years, and to focus on a theme of the rights of the child on an annual basis in the
intervening period,
Welcoming the constructive dialogue on “20 years of the Convention on the Rights
of the Child: achievements and challenges ahead for its full realization” on the occasion of
the full-day annual meeting on the rights of the child on 11 March 2009 and renewed
commitment expressed on this occasion by States to the implementation of the Convention,
Recalling the different initiatives at the international and regional levels to
contribute to the implementation of the Convention and international events, such as the
recent Third World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, held
in November 2008 in Rio de Janeiro,
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