A/HRC/12/50
9.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a detailed
document outlining the practical implications of a change in mandate of the Voluntary
Fund, in particular if it is expanded, the current working methods and resources of the
Fund, and to present it to the Council at its fifteenth session;
10.
Requests the Special Rapporteur, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
and the Expert Mechanism to continue to carry out their tasks in a coordinated manner;
11.
Encourages those States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the
Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries of the
International Labour Organization (C169) to consider doing so, and to consider supporting
the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
12.
Decides to continue consideration of this question at a future session, in
conformity with its annual programme of work.
30th meeting
1 October 2009
[Adopted without a vote. See part II, chap. III.]
12/14.
Situation of human rights in Honduras since the coup d’état on 28 June 2009
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006,
Recalling further Council resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 63/301 of 30 June 2009 on the situation in
Honduras,
Acknowledging the resolutions and declarations adopted by regional and subregional
organizations on the coup d’état that took place in Honduras on 28 June 2009,
Deeply concerned at the coup d’état in Honduras,
Deeply concerned also at the human rights violations in Honduras reported by
several special procedures of the Council and regional human rights bodies of the
Organization of American States,
1.
Strongly condemns the human rights violations occurring as a consequence of
the coup d’état of 28 June 2009, and in particular following the return of President José
Manuel Zelaya Rosales on 21 September 2009;
2.
Calls for the immediate end to all human rights violations in Honduras and
for the unconditional respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as the
restoration of democracy and the rule of law;
3.
Calls on all actors and institutions to refrain from violence and to respect
human rights and fundamental freedoms;
4.
Expresses its support for regional and subregional efforts made to restore the
democratic and constitutional order and the rule of law in Honduras;
5.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
present a comprehensive report on the violations of human rights in Honduras since the
coup d’état, and to submit a preliminary report thereon to the General Assembly at the main
part of its sixty-fourth session and to the Council at its thirteenth session.
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