A/HRC/14/37
16.
Decides to continue considering the issue in 2011 under the same agenda
item.
34th meeting
17 June 2010
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 31 to 14, with 1 abstention. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Angola, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational State of),
Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chile, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt,
Gabon, Ghana, Indonesia, Jordan, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi
Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Uruguay, Zambia
Against:
Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan,
Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of
America
Abstaining:
India]
14/4
The effects of foreign debt and other related international financial
obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights,
particularly economic, social and cultural rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and other relevant international
human rights instruments,
Reaffirming all resolutions and decisions adopted by the Commission on Human
Rights on the effects of structural adjustment and economic reform policies and foreign
debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural
rights, including Commission resolutions 1998/24 of 17 April 1998, 1999/22 of 23 April
1999, 2000/82 of 26 April 2000, 2004/18 of 16 April 2004 and 2005/19 of 14 April 2005,
as well as Council resolutions 7/4 of 27 March 2008 and 11/5 of 17 June 2009,
Reaffirming also its resolution S-10/1 of 23 February 2009 on the impact of the
global economic and financial crises on the universal realization and effective enjoyment of
human rights,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March
2006,
Stressing that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve international
cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or
humanitarian character,
Emphasizing that the World Conference on Human Rights agreed to call upon the
international community to make all efforts to help to alleviate the external debt burden of
developing countries in order to supplement the efforts of the Governments of such
countries to attain the full realization of the economic, social and cultural rights of their
people,
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