A/HRC/RES/21/7 7. Calls upon States to work in cooperation with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence in accordance with his mandate, including by extending invitations to the Special Rapporteur; 8. Welcomes the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and encourages all States that have not yet signed, ratified or acceded to the Convention to consider doing so; 9. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to the truth7 and, in accordance with its conclusions, calls upon all States to consider developing comprehensive witness protection programmes covering all types of crimes, including gross human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law; 10. Also takes note with appreciation of the report of the Office of the High Commissioner on the seminar on experience of archives as a means to guarantee the right to the truth,8 which outlined the importance of archives to the ability of victims to realize their right to the truth, to judicial accountability and non-judicial truth-seeking processes, and for reparations, and, in accordance with its concluding observations, encourages States that have not yet done so to establish a national archival policy that ensures that all archives pertaining to human rights are preserved and protected, and to enact legislation that declares that the nation’s documentary heritage is to be retained and preserved, and creates the framework for managing State records from their creation to destruction or preservation; 11. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to invite, from within existing resources, Member States, United Nations organs, intergovernmental organizations, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations to provide information on good practices in the establishment, preservation and provision of access to national archives on human rights, and to make the information received publically available in an online database; 12. Invites special procedures and other mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, in the framework of their mandates, to take into account, as appropriate, the issue of the right to the truth; 13. Decides to consider this matter at its twenty-seventh session under the same agenda item or at the corresponding session in conformity with its annual programme of work. 36th meeting 27 September 2012 [Adopted without a vote.] 7 8 4 A/HRC/15/33. A/HRC/17/21.