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special procedures. The Council should identify more systematically reports that
should be shared officially, through the Secretary-General, with the Security Council
and/or the Peacebuilding Commission. The latter, as well as its different country
configurations, should be encouraged to invite the Council’s mechanisms to
participate in their deliberations. The senior representatives of United Nations
regional presences should also be encouraged to include inputs from the Council’s
mechanisms, obtained by OHCHR or United Nations country teams, in their reports
to the Security Council. The Council should also invite them to intervene, in person or
through video links, in country-specific discussions.
68.
In order to ensure a closer working relationship with the United Nations
development pillar, inputs from United Nations country teams should be included in
the reports compiled by OHCHR for the universal periodic review. Resident
coordinators should be invited more systematically to intervene, in person or through
video links, in country-specific discussions at the Council. Similarly, the Council
should extend an invitation to the President of the Economic and Social Council to
address it each year on the outcomes of the high-level political forum on sustainable
development. At the national level, the Council should also encourage the setting up of
national mechanisms for implementation, reporting and follow-up, with the
participation of United Nations country teams. The Council should advocate for the
systematic inclusion of human rights advisers in United Nations country teams to
promote the cooperation of country teams with the Council’s mechanisms and to
ensure that the recommendations made by the latter, as well as other human rights
concerns, are integrated into United Nations sustainable development cooperation
frameworks. In cases in which in-country human rights advisers are not available, the
Council should encourage resident coordinators to seek advice from OHCHR.
VI. Recommendations
69.
The Council and all its mechanisms should give explicit attention to prevention
in their work, through:
(a)
The inclusion of a prevention mandate when establishing new
mechanisms;
(b)
A request to all mandate holders to adopt a preventive approach and
develop a strategy to ensure that their work provides an optimal contribution to
prevention efforts at the national level, and to include this strategy in their next report
to the Council;
(c)
A request to the Advisory Committee to review the terms of reference of
existing mechanisms, especially special procedures, to ensure that prevention is
explicitly included in their mandates.
70.
The Council should improve its capacity to contribute through dialogue and
cooperation towards the prevention of human rights violations 18 by setting up a
human rights recommendations implementation facility. The facility should be
administered by OHCHR and operate under the guidance of a committee composed of
representatives of five States – one from each region.
71.
The Council should improve its capacity to respond promptly to human rights
emergencies19 and to this end:
(a)
Publicize widely the existence of the complaints procedure and provide
the means for members of its working groups to conduct country visits, as well as hold
hearings with victims and representatives of the States concerned;
(b)
Call upon OHCHR to reinforce its rapid response capacity through:
(i)
The setting up of a roster of human rights experts available for
deployment at short notice;
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General Assembly resolution 60/251, para. 5 (f).
Ibid.
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