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3.
Reaffirms the Social Forum as a unique space for interactive dialogue
between the United Nations human rights machinery and various stakeholders, including
the contribution of civil society and grass-roots organizations, and stresses the need to
ensure greater participation of grass-roots organizations and of those living in poverty,
particularly women, especially from developing countries, in the sessions of the Forum;
4.
Underlines the importance of coordinated efforts at the national, regional and
international levels for the promotion of social cohesion based on the principles of social
justice, equity and solidarity and of addressing the social dimension and challenges of the
ongoing globalization process and the negative impact of the current economic and
financial crises;
5.
Stresses the need for increased and sustained participation and contribution of
civil society and all other relevant actors listed in the present resolution to the promotion
and effective realization of the right to development;
6.
Decides that the Social Forum will meet for three working days in 2016, in
Geneva, on dates suitable for the participation of representatives of States Members of the
United Nations and of the broadest possible range of other stakeholders, especially from
developing countries, and also decides that, at its next meeting, the Forum should focus on
the promotion and full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms
by all persons with disabilities in the context of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
7.
Requests the President of the Human Rights Council to appoint, as early as
possible, from candidates nominated by regional groups, the Chairperson-Rapporteur for
the 2016 Social Forum, bearing in mind the principle of regional rotation;
8.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights to make available the most recent and relevant United Nations reports and
documents on the promotion and full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities as background documents for the
dialogues and debates that will be held at the 2016 Social Forum;
9.
Requests the High Commissioner to facilitate the participation in the 2016
Social Forum, in order to contribute to interactive dialogues and debate at the Forum and to
assist the Chairperson-Rapporteur as resource persons, of no fewer than 10 experts,
including representatives of civil society and grass-roots organizations in developing
countries, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility and
the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities;
10.
Decides that the Social Forum will remain open to the participation of
representatives of States Members of the United Nations and all other interested
stakeholders, such as intergovernmental organizations, different components of the United
Nations system, especially mandate holders of thematic procedures and mechanisms of the
human rights machinery, regional economic commissions and specialized agencies and
organizations, as well as representatives designated by human rights national institutions
and non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social
Council, and will also be open to other non-governmental organizations whose aims and
purposes are in conformity with the spirit, purposes and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations, including newly emerging actors, such as small groups and rural and urban
associations from the North and the South, anti-poverty groups, peasants’ and farmers’
organizations and their national and international associations, voluntary organizations,
environmental organizations and activists, youth associations, community organizations,
trade unions and associations of workers, as well as representatives of the private sector, on
the basis of arrangements, including Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31 of 25
July 1996 and practices observed by the Commission on Human Rights, through an open
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