A/HRC/DEC/42/106
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 September 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-second session
9–27 September 2019
Agenda item 6
Decision adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 20 September 2019
42/106.
Outcome of the universal periodic review: Bhutan
The Human Rights Council,
Acting in compliance with the mandate entrusted to it by the General Assembly in its
resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, and with Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 of 18
June 2007 and 16/21 of 25 March 2011, and President’s statement PRST/8/1 of 9 April 2008,
on the modalities and practices for the universal periodic review process,
Having conducted the review of Bhutan on 8 May 2019 in conformity with all relevant
provisions contained in the annex to Council resolution 5/1,
Adopts the outcome of the review of Bhutan, comprising the report thereon of the
Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, 1 the views of the State concerning the
recommendations and/or conclusions made, and its voluntary commitments and replies
presented before the adoption of the outcome by the plenary to questions or issues not
sufficiently addressed during the interactive dialogue held in the Working Group.2
25th meeting
20 September 2019
[Adopted without a vote.]
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2
A/HRC/42/8.
A/HRC/42/8/Add.1; see also A/HRC/42/2, chap. VI.
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