A/HRC/RES/33/22 7. Calls upon States to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 16, with the participation of all stakeholders; 8. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare concise and actionoriented draft guidelines as a set of orientations for States on the effective implementation of the right to participate in public affairs, as set out in article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and as further elaborated on in other relevant provisions under international human rights law, and to present the draft guidelines to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-ninth session in order to allow the Council to take a decision on the way forward; 9. Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to facilitate open, transparent and inclusive elaboration of the draft guidelines through consultations with States and with the participation of relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, intergovernmental organizations, the Human Rights Committee and other treaty bodies, special procedures, regional human rights mechanisms, national human rights institutions, civil society organizations, academia and other relevant stakeholders, including through informal consultations with States and other stakeholders at the regional level; 10. Invites the Office of the High Commissioner to consider examining in the draft guidelines, inter alia: (a) Basic principles underpinning the effective implementation of the right to participate in public affairs; (b) The effective implementation of all dimensions of the right to participate in public affairs for all rights holders, without discrimination or distinction of any kind, including at the national level, in all phases of the electoral process, between elections, outside the political process in the conduct of public affairs, and in access to public service, and on the participation of citizens, individually and in association with others, at the supranational level, including within international organizations; (c) Cooperation and assistance aimed at the effective implementation of the right to participate in public affairs, including through electoral assistance and observation; (d) Model standards advancing the effective implementation of the right to participate in public affairs based on examples of best practices; (e) Emerging and new forms of participation, in particular through new information and communications technology and social media; 11. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to provide an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-sixth session, seeking the views of States on the content and the preparation of the draft guidelines, including proposals on how effective implementation of the right to participate in public affairs could be promoted further through the United Nations system; 12. Decides to remain seized of the matter. 41st meeting 30 September 2016 [Adopted without a vote.] 4