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communications, without prejudice to the need for the concerned State to cooperate with
the Working Group;
7.
Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the Working Group receives all
the assistance and resources it requires to perform its mandate;
8.
Welcomes the fact that eighty-three States have signed the International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and eighteen
States have ratified or acceded to it, and calls upon States that have not yet done so to
consider signing and ratifying the Convention as a matter of priority, as well as to consider
the option provided for in articles 31 and 32 of the Convention regarding the Committee on
Enforced Disappearances, with a view to its entry into force by September 2010;
9.
Invites States to consider joining all efforts to share information on best
practices and to work towards the early entry into force of the Convention with the aim of
its universality;
10.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights to organize, within existing resources, a one-day event to commemorate the thirtieth
anniversary of the Working Group;
11.
Encourages the General Assembly to proclaim 30 August the International
Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances;
12.
Requests the Working Group to prepare a report for submission to the Human
Rights Council at its sixteenth session on best practices on enforced disappearances in
domestic criminal legislation based on inputs solicited from member States;
13.
Also requests the Working Group to pay particular attention to the situation
of women victims of enforced or involuntary disappearances through its activities;
14.
Decides to continue consideration of the matter in conformity with its
programme of work.
35th meeting
18 June 2010
[Adopted without a vote.]
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