A/HRC/8/52 page 2 CONTENTS Chapter Page Part One: Resolutions, decisions and President’s statements ....................................... 8 I. Resolutions adopted by the Council at its eighth session .................................... 8 8/1. Conference facilities and financial support for the Human Rights Council ............................................................................... 8 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ........................................................ 8 Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions ................................................................ 17 8/4. The right to education ................................................................................. 20 8/5. Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order ..................... 24 8/6. Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers ................................................................................. 28 Mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises ........................................................................... 30 Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment ............................................................................................. 32 8/9. Promotion of the right of peoples to peace ................................................. 37 8/10. Human rights of migrants: mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants ................................................................. 40 8/11. Human rights and extreme poverty ............................................................. 42 8/12. Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children .................................................................................... 45 Elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members .............................................................. 49 Situation of human rights in Myanmar ....................................................... 50 8/2. 8/3. 8/7. 8/8. 8/13. 8/14.