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Development Goal on improving maternal health,3 and recommended options for better
addressing the human rights dimension of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity
throughout the United Nations system;
7.
Decides to address the thematic study requested in paragraph 6 above within the
programme of work of its fourteenth session, and to consider taking further possible action on
preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights at that session, and invites the
Office of the High Commissioner, the World Health Organization, the United Nations
Population Fund and the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health to participate in an interactive dialogue
on the study in the Council.
27th meeting
17 June 2009
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. III.]
11/9. The human rights of migrants in detention centres
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling previous resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on Human
Rights and the Council on the protection of the human rights of migrants and the work of various
special mechanisms of the Council that have reported on the situation of human rights and
fundamental freedoms of migrants, particularly those held in detention centres,
Aware of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
(A/HRC/11/7), which focuses on the protection of children in the context of migration,
Aware also of the report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (A/HRC/7/4),
Emphasizing the importance of addressing the situation of migrants in detention centres
and in administrative detention, which creates conditions for the potential violation of their
human rights, through a comprehensive, integrated, concerted and balanced approach,
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