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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.]
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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,
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