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10. Invites special rapporteurs and other mechanisms of the Council, in the framework of
their mandates, to take into account, as appropriate, the issue of the right to the truth;
11. Decides to consider this matter at its twelfth session under the same agenda item or at
the corresponding session in conformity with its annual programme of work.
22nd meeting
24 September 2008
Adopted without a vote.
9/12. Human rights voluntary goals
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes, principles and provisions of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the provisions and the paramount role of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, the sixtieth anniversary of which is celebrated in 2008, in providing the basis for
the development of laws and mechanisms to promote and protect human rights, both nationally
and internationally,
Reaffirming also the provisions and the decisive importance of the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action, the fifteenth anniversary of which is celebrated in 2008, which recognizes
that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated,
Recognizing the importance of the core international human rights instruments,
Recognizing also the relevance of the optional protocols to the core international human
rights instruments,
Taking note with appreciation of the broad support for the initiative to elaborate a set of
human rights voluntary goals, inspired by the Millennium Development Goals, which led to the
adoption, by consensus, of Council resolution 6/26,
Welcoming the open-ended intergovernmental process initiated by the Council in its
resolution 6/26, with special attention to the high-level panel on human rights voluntary goals
held at the seventh session of the Council, in order to elaborate, on a consensual basis, a set of
human rights voluntary goals to promote the realization and implementation of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights in accordance with States’ international human rights obligations
and commitments, to be launched on 10 December 2008 during the celebrations of the sixtieth
anniversary of the Declaration,
Taking into account the fact that the above-mentioned initiative could bring more visibility
and public awareness to the United Nations human rights system with a view to the promotion
and protection of all human rights,
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