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ensuring the protection and promotion of the human rights of all people in Cambodia,
including by providing assistance in, inter alia, the fields of:
(a)
Drafting various laws necessary for protecting and promoting human rights
and assisting the establishment of an independent national human rights institution;
(b)
Capacity-building to strengthen legal institutions, including by improving the
quality of judges, prosecutors, lawyers and court staff;
(c)
Capacity-building to strengthen national institutions for criminal
investigation and law enforcement, as well as providing the equipment necessary for these
ends;
(d)
Assisting the assessment of progress in human rights issues;
7.
Encourages the Government of Cambodia and the international community
to provide all necessary assistance to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia, which would help ensure the non-return to the policies and practices of the past,
as envisioned by the 1991 Agreement on a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the
Cambodia Conflict;
8.
Takes note of the need to continue close consultations between the
Government of Cambodia and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in
Cambodia towards the further improvement of the situation of human rights in the country
and of the continuous technical cooperation of the Office of the High Commissioner with
the Government of Cambodia;
9.
Decides to extend by one year the mandate of the special procedure on the
situation of human rights in Cambodia, and requests the Special Rapporteur to report on the
implementation of his mandate to the Council at its fifteenth session and to engage in a
constructive manner with the Government of Cambodia for the further improvement of the
situation of human rights in the country;
10.
Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council at its fifteenth session
on the role and achievements of the Office of the High Commissioner in assisting the
Government and the people of Cambodia in the promotion and protection of human rights;
11.
Decides to continue its consideration of the situation of human rights in
Cambodia at its fifteenth session.
32nd meeting
2 October 2009
[Adopted without a vote. See part II, chap. X.]
12/26.
Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights,
Acknowledging that peace and security, development and human rights are the
pillars of the United Nations system,
Reaffirming the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Somalia,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the human rights situations in Somalia, in
particular resolution 10/32 of 27 March 2009,
Recalling also its resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007,
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