A/HRC/16/2 9. Acknowledges the standing invitation issued by President Ouattara to all United Nations special procedures mandate holders on thematic issues, including the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination; 10. Decides to dispatch an independent, international commission of inquiry, to be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council, taking into consideration the importance of ensuring the equal participation and full involvement of women, to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding the allegations of serious abuses and violations of human rights committed in Côte d’Ivoire following the presidential election of 28 November 2010, in order to identify those responsible for such acts and to bring them to justice, and to present its findings to the Council at its seventeenth session, and calls upon all Ivorian parties to cooperate fully with the commission of inquiry; 11. Decides to recommend that the General Assembly transmit the findings of the commission of inquiry, when available, to all relevant bodies; 12. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide the administrative, technical and logistical support necessary to allow the commission of inquiry to carry out its mandate; 13. Assembly; Decides to transmit the report of the High Commissioner31 to the General 14. Requests the High Commissioner to present a report on the situation of human rights in Côte d’Ivoire at its seventeenth session; 15. Decides to remain seized of the matter. 47th meeting 25 March 2011 [Adopted without a vote.] 16/26 The Social Forum The Human Rights Council, Recalling all previous resolutions and decisions adopted on the Social Forum by the Commission on Human Rights and its Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, as well as by the Economic and Social Council, Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 of 18 June 2007, 6/13 of 28 September 2007, 10/4 of 25 March 2009, 10/29 of 27 March 2009 and 13/17 of 25 March 2010, Bearing in mind that the reduction of poverty and the elimination of extreme poverty remain an ethical and moral imperative of humankind, based on the respect for human dignity, and noting the report of the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the 2010 Social Forum,32 held in Geneva from 4 to 6 October 2010, which focused on the adverse effects of climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights, including the right to life and economic, social and cultural rights, 32 62 A/HRC/16/62 and Corr.1. GE.11-17059

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