Human Rights Council
Resolution 4/3. Intergovernmental Working Group on the Review of Mandates
The Human Rights Council,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15
March 2006, in which the Assembly decided that the Council should improve and
rationalize all mandates, mechanisms, functions and responsibilities of the
Commission on Human Rights in order to maintain a system of special procedures,
expert advice and a complaint procedure,
Recalling its decision 1/104 of 30 June 2006, in which it decided to establish
an open-ended intergovernmental working group on the issue of reviewing and, where
necessary, improving and rationalizing all human rights mandates, mechanisms,
functions and responsibilities,
Recalling also its resolution 2/1 of 27 November 2006, in which it requested
the Working Group to draft a code of conduct regulating the work of the special
procedures, and also requested the Coordinating Committee of the special procedures
to extend until the closure of the fourth session of the Human Rights Council the
deadline for the submission of comments and inputs to the draft manual of special
procedures,
Taking note of the draft manual of the United Nations human rights special
procedures, revised by the Coordinating Committee of the special procedures, and the
decision taken at the thirteenth meeting of the special procedures to submit the
manual to Governments and other stakeholders for comments and inputs,
1.
Requests the Coordinating Committee of the special procedures to
extend until the closure of the fifth session of the Human Rights Council, which will
be held from 11 to 18 June 2007, the deadline for the submission of comments on and
inputs to the draft manual of special procedures;
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