A/HRC/RES/30/8 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 14 October 2015 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirtieth session Agenda item 3 Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 1 October 2015 30/8. Contribution of the Human Rights Council to the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS in 2016 The Human Rights Council, Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 12/27 of 2 October 2009, 15/22 of 30 September 2010 and 16/28 of 25 March 2011, and relevant Commission on Human Rights resolutions, Reaffirming the Political Declarations on HIV/AIDS adopted by the General Assembly on 2 June 2006 and 8 July 2011, and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, adopted by the Assembly on 27 June 2001, Recalling the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights referred to in the above-mentioned resolutions and annexed to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1997/33 of 11 April 1997, which provides guidance to ensuring the respect, protection and fulfilment of human rights in the context of HIV, Recalling also the panel discussion held on 20 March 2012 at the nineteenth session of the Human Rights Council on giving a voice to people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, Welcoming the consensus reached on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which contains a goal to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, and which includes the target of ending the epidemic of AIDS by 2030, Welcoming also the decision of the General Assembly of 30 June 2014 to convene a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS in 2016,1 preferably in the second half of the year, and to undertake the necessary consultations to determine the modalities and organizational arrangements for such a meeting during the seventieth session of the Assembly, Reaffirming that the full realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all is an essential element in the global response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, including in * 1 Reissued for technical reasons on 22 October 2015. General Assembly decision 68/555. GE.15-17581(E) *1517581* *