A/HRC/16/2 Taking note of the work on victims of terrorism of the Special Rapporteur on Terrorism and Human Rights of the Subcommission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Recognizing, therefore, the need to reflect on the question of human rights of victims of terrorist acts, 1. Decides to convene, within existing resources, at its seventeenth session, a panel discussion on the issue of the human rights of victims of terrorism, taking into account, inter alia, the recommendations of the Secretary-General’s Symposium on Supporting Victims of Terrorism, held on 9 September 2008, in New York; 2. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to liaise with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism and all concerned parties and stakeholders, including relevant United Nations bodies and agencies, with a view to ensuring their participation in the panel discussion; 3. Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a report on the outcome of the panel discussion in the form of a summary.” 45th meeting 24 March 2011 [Adopted without a vote.] 16/117 Right to development At its 47th meeting, on 25 March 2011, the Human Rights Council decided to adopt the following text: “The Human Rights Council, Recalling the Charter of the United Nations and the core human rights instruments, Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolution 15/25 of 1 October 2010, and recalling all Commission on Human Rights, Council and General Assembly resolutions on the right to development, Reaffirming also the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986, and bearing in mind that 2011 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration, 1. Decides to hold a panel during the eighteenth session of the Human Rights Council to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, on the theme ‘The way forward in the realization of the right to development: between policy and practice’, with the participation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; 2. Also decides to request the Office of the High Commissioner to organize the panel, within existing resources, and to invite relevant United Nations human rights mechanisms, specialized agencies, funds and programmes, as well as civil society and national human rights institutions, to the panel session; 3. Further decides to request the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a summary of the panel discussions, to be submitted to the Working Group 102 GE.11-17059

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