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(c) To hold thereafter open-ended intergovernmental informal consultations to elaborate
a set of human rights voluntary goals to be presented to the Human Rights Council, on a
consensual basis, through a draft resolution to be adopted by the Council at the end of its session
in September 2008;
3.
Further decides that the open-ended intergovernmental process will lead to the
elaboration of human rights voluntary goals under the following issues:
(a)
Universal ratification of the core international human rights instruments;
(b) Elaboration, in each country, where they do not exist, of national human rights
programmes, and the creation of national institutions responsible for human rights issues, in
accordance with the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993 and the Paris
Principles;
(c) Adoption of a legal, institutional and policy framework at the national level in order
to ensure the promotion and protection of all human rights;
(d) Definition, within the framework of national human rights programmes, of targets
and actions in the field of capacity-building as well as of a programme of human rights education
and identification of needs and shortcomings related to international cooperation;
(e) Definition within the framework of national human rights programmes of targets and
actions in compliance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, inter alia, to eliminate
discrimination of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other
opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status;
4.
Emphasizes that such human rights voluntary goals are to be regarded as reinforcing
and by no means as replacing, either totally or partially, existing human rights obligations and
commitments, including the implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
5.
Welcomes participation in the process of representatives of the United Nations and of
regional human rights systems, as well as of all relevant stakeholders, according to the rules of
procedure of the Human Rights Council;
6.
Decides to consider the results of the open-ended intergovernmental process in
elaborating a set of human rights voluntary goals to be submitted to the Human Rights Council,
on a consensual basis, through a draft resolution, by its session in September 2008;
7.
Encourages States and all relevant stakeholders to present to the Human Rights
Council, during the commemoration process, the projects and activities undertaken at the
national, regional and international levels on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
33rd meeting
14 December 2007
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. III.]
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