Human Rights Council
Decision 2/115.
Darfur
The Human Rights Council decides to adopt the following text:
“1. The Human Rights Council welcomes the Darfur Peace Agreement
signed in Abuja as well as the measures already taken towards its
implementation. It calls on all parties that have not yet done so to sign the
Agreement, in compliance with the relevant United Nations resolutions;
“2. The Council notes with concern the seriousness of the human rights
and humanitarian situation in Darfur and calls on all parties to put an
immediate end to the ongoing violations of human rights and international
humanitarian law, with a special focus on vulnerable groups, including women
and children, while not hindering the return of all internally displaced persons
to their homes;
“3. The Council notes that the Darfur Peace Agreement stipulates the
principles of enhancing accountability and preventing impunity. It calls on all
parties to uphold the principles which are equally applicable to States and nonState actors and to cooperate fully in the implementation of the Agreement;
“4. The Council calls on all parties, whether they have signed the
Darfur Peace Agreement or failed to do so, to ensure full and unfettered access
by monitors of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights deployed in the Sudan to all places where they have duties to
discharge and to ensure the full, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian
assistance to those in need in Darfur;
“5. The Council welcomes the cooperation established by the
Government of the Sudan with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in the Sudan, and calls upon the Government to continue and
intensify its cooperation with the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms;
“6. The Council calls upon the international community at large and
donor countries and peace partners in particular to honour their pledges of
support and to provide urgent and adequate financial and technical assistance
to the Government of Sudan in the promotion and protection of human rights.”
Adopted by a recorded vote of 25 to 11,
with 10 abstentions
34th meeting
28 November 2006
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