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as part of the right of all people and all peoples for a democratic and equitable international
order; and as an essential element of the right of peoples to peace. Thus, in the work of the
Human Rights Council the right to peace should be linked in its material formulation to
emerging rights or solidarity, in particular the right to international solidarity, the right to a
democratic and equitable international order as well as to the traditional right of peoples to
peace.
57.
Finally, Mr. Yutzis suggested that the Human Rights Council could reaffirm the
right of peoples to peace as a collective and as an individual right. The Council could also
initiate the codification of the human right to peace through the establishment of an openended working group, open to the participation of civil society organizations. It could also
invite the Advisory Committee to prepare elements for the elaboration of a universal
declaration on the human right to peace and to propose guidelines, norms and principles
aimed at protecting and promoting that right. The Council could also invite human rights
treaty bodies and special procedures to contribute to the development of the right to peace
from the perspective of their respective mandates.
58.
Throughout the meeting civil society organizations exchanged views with the
experts and recalled that, inter alia, civil society organizations had been actively pursuing
the progressive development of the notion of the right of peoples to peace. Their
contribution was reflected, for instance, in the preparation and dissemination of the civil
society group of experts’ Luarca Declaration on the Human Right to Peace, as well as
through their active participation in the context of the Human Rights Council discussions
on the right of peoples to peace. Civil society organizations had also contributed with
scholarly analysis aimed at contributing to the clarification of the content of the right of
peoples to peace.
59.
The expert workshop was concluded by Paul Seils, from the Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights, who thanked the experts and all participants for their
important contributions.
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