A/HRC/PRST/22/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 April 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-second session
Agenda item 1
Organizational and procedural matters
Statement by the President
PRST 22/1.
Mainstreaming human rights throughout the United Nations system
At the 50th meeting, held on 22 March 2013, the President of the Human Rights
Council read out the following statement:
“The Human Rights Council,
Acknowledging that peace and security, development and human rights are
the pillars of the United Nations system and the foundations for collective security
and well-being, and recognizing that development, peace and security and human
rights are interlinked and mutually reinforcing,
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated,
interdependent and mutually reinforcing, and that all human rights must be treated in
a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis,
Welcomes the high-level panel discussion on the mainstreaming of human
rights throughout the United Nations system, held at the twenty-second session of
the Human Rights Council.”
The resolutions, decisions and statements by the President adopted by the Human Rights Council will
be contained in the report of the Council on its twenty-second session (A/HRC/22/2), chap. I.
GE.13- 13121
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