A/HRC/8/6 page 4 General Assembly took note of these principles, recognized that they constituted an important tool and encouraged the agencies and bodies of the United Nations, regional organizations and non-governmental organizations to disseminate them and apply them. At the 2005 World Summit, heads of State and government recognized the Guiding Principles as an important international framework for the protection of internally displaced persons.3 Treaty bodies4 and regional organizations5 have also referred to these principles in their conclusions and decisions. The Guiding Principles have been translated into over 35 languages, and have already served as a basis for legislation or specific policies on internal displacement in some 20 countries, but also for international agreements on displacement issues, such as the Protocol on Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons, which is an integral part of the 2006 Pact on Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes Region. 7. At its sixty-first session, in resolution 2004/55, the Commission on Human Rights requested the Secretary-General to establish a new mechanism that would “address the complex problem of internal displacement, in particular by mainstreaming human rights of the internally displaced into all relevant parts of the United Nations system”. 8. In September 2004, the Secretary-General appointed Walter Kälin as his Representative on the human rights of internally displaced persons. 9. In the report on the performance and effectiveness of the new mechanism on internal displacement which he submitted in 2006 at the request of the Commission on Human Rights, the Secretary-General concluded that this new mechanism was positive and helped to improve the protection of displaced persons. The human rights-based approach adopted by the Representative both with States and with the United Nations has served to strengthen the effectiveness of the response to situations of internal displacement.6 10. In pursuit of his mandate, the Representative has devised a strategy based on the conviction that displaced persons can fully exercise their human rights only if a number of 3 Résolutions de l’Assemblée générale: A/60/1, par. 132; 60/168, par. 8; 62/153, par. 10. Voir aussi résolution 6/32, par. 7 (c), du Conseil des droits de l’homme. 4 Voir, pour des exemples récents, les observations finales du Comité des droits de l’homme sur le rapport de l’ex-République yougoslave de Macédoine (CCPR/C/MKD/CO/2, par. 15); les observations finales du Comité pour l’élimination de la discrimination raciale sur le rapport de l’Éthiopie (CERD/C/ETH/CO/15, par. 18); les observations finales du Comité des droits de l’enfant sur le rapport de la Colombie (CRC/C/COL/CO/3, par. 79). 5 Voir Cour européenne des droits de l’homme, Affaire Dogan et autres c. Turquie, arrêt du 29 juin 2004, par. 154; Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Caso de La Comunidad Moiwana vs. Suriname, Sentencia de 15 de junio de 2005, Corte I.D.H., (Ser. C) No. 124 2005, Opinion individuelle du juge A. A. Cançado Trindade, par. 16-17. 6 Voir le rapport du Secrétaire général sur les réalisations et l’efficacité du nouveau mécanisme pour la question des déplacements internes, E/CN.4/2006/69, par. 47.