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11.
Requests Mr. Yokota to enter into a dialogue with the relevant entities, including
the World Health Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Special Rapporteur on the right of
everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and the Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
12.
Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights to provide Mr. Yokota with all the assistance necessary to enable him to
accomplish his task, including with regard to the organization of the proposed workshops and
consultation meeting;
13.
adoption:
Recommends the following draft decision to the Human Rights Council for
[For the text, see chap. I, draft decision 7.]
21st meeting
24 August 2006
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. VII.]
2006/16. The legal implications of the disappearance of States and other
territories for environmental reasons, including the implications
for the human rights of their residents, with particular reference
to the rights of indigenous peoples
The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,
Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Recalling its previous work on the question, in particular resolution 2003/24 of
14 August 2003 and resolution 2004/10 of 9 August 2004,
Taking account of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/122 of 21 April 2004
and decision 2005/112 of 20 April 2005,
Recognizing the importance and urgency of addressing, in a comprehensive fashion, the
legal implications, including implications for the human rights of their residents, with particular
reference to the rights of indigenous peoples, of the unprecedented phenomenon of
disappearance of States and other territories,
Recalling the expanded working paper submitted at its fifty-seventh session by
Françoise Hampson on the human rights situation of indigenous peoples in States and territories
threatened with extinction for environmental reasons (E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/28) and welcoming
the updated information provided in her conference room paper submitted at its fifty-eighth
session (E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.4/2006/CRP.2),
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