A/HRC/13/56
13.
Urges relevant United Nations human rights mechanisms and appropriate
treaty bodies and encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees to continue with the ongoing collection of 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;
14.
Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a report on the impact that
arbitrary deprivation of nationality may have on the enjoyment by persons of their human
rights, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, and to present it to the
Council at its nineteenth session;
15.
Decides to remain seized of this matter.
41st meeting
24 March 2010
[Adopted without a vote. See part II, chap. III.]
13/3.
Open-ended Working Group on an optional protocol to the Convention
on the Rights of the Child to provide a communications procedure
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 11/1 of 17 June 2009 on the Openended Working Group on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
to provide a communications procedure,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 64/146 of 18 December 2009 on the
rights of the child,
Bearing in mind paragraph 33 (p) of General Assembly resolution 64/146, in which
the Assembly called upon States to ensure that child-sensitive procedures were made
available to children and their representatives so that children had access to means of
facilitating effective remedies for any breaches of any of their rights arising from the
Convention on the Rights of the Child through independent advice, advocacy and complaint
procedures, including justice mechanisms, and that their views were heard when they were
involved or their interests were concerned in judicial or administrative procedures in a
manner consistent with the procedural rules of national law,
Noting with interest general comment No. 5 (2003) of the Committee on the Rights
of the Child, in which the Committee emphasized that children’s special and dependent
status creates real difficulties for them in pursuing remedies for breaches of their rights, and
general comment No. 12 (2009), in which the Committee stated that the right of all children
to be heard and taken seriously constitutes one of the fundamental values of the Convention
on the Rights of the Child,
Recalling the view of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, expressed by its
Chairperson in her oral report to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session, that the
development of a communications procedure for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
would significantly contribute to the overall protection of children’s rights,
1.
Takes note of the report on its first session, held in Geneva from 16 to 18
December 2009, of the Open-ended Working Group established under Human Rights
Council resolution 11/1 to explore the possibility of elaborating an optional protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child to provide a communications procedure
complementary to the reporting procedure under the Convention (A/HRC/13/43);
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