A/HRC/15/60 8. Notes with deep concern that the Working Group has received increasing information on reprisals suffered by individuals who were the subject of an urgent appeal or opinion or who applied a recommendation of the Working Group, and calls upon the States concerned to take appropriate measures to prevent such acts and to combat impunity by investigating promptly and effectively all allegations of intimidation and reprisal in order to bring perpetrators to justice and to provide victims with appropriate remedies; 9. Expresses its profound thanks to the States that have extended their cooperation to the Working Group and responded to its requests for information, and invites all States concerned to demonstrate the same spirit of cooperation; 10. Notes with satisfaction that the Working Group has been informed of the release of some of the individuals whose situation has been brought to its attention, while deploring the many cases that have not yet been resolved; 11. Decides to extend the mandate of the Working Group for a further period of three years, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1991/42 and 1997/50 and with Council resolution 6/4; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to provide all necessary assistance to the Working Group, particularly with regard to the staffing and resources needed for the effective fulfilment of its mandate, especially in respect of field missions; 13. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize in 2011, within existing resources, a one-day event to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Working Group; 14. Decides to continue consideration of the question of arbitrary detention in conformity with its programme of work. 32nd meeting 30 September 2010 [Adopted without a vote.] 15/19 Draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights The Human Rights Council, Recalling that, in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights, the ideal of free human beings enjoying freedom from fear and want can be achieved only if conditions are created whereby everyone may enjoy his or her economic, social and cultural rights, as well as his or her civil and political rights, Recalling also all previous resolutions on the issue of human rights and extreme poverty adopted by the General Assembly and the importance they attach to giving persons living in extreme poverty the wherewithal to organize and participate in all aspects of political, economic, social and cultural life, Recalling further all previous resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights, as well as relevant Council resolutions, including resolutions 2/2 of 27 November 2006, 7/27 of 28 March 2008 and 8/11 of 18 June 2008, in which it extended the mandate of the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, as well as its resolution 12/19 of 2 October 2009, in which it invited the independent expert to submit a progress report presenting her recommendations on how to improve the draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights to the Council at its fifteenth session, 44 GE.11-17043