A/HRC/18/2 14. Requests the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants to continue his efforts to promote and support the building of greater synergies between States to strengthen cooperation for the protection of the human rights of all migrant workers and their families; 15. Also requests the Special Rapporteur to continue to report on best practices of States to protect the human rights of all migrant workers. 37th meeting 30 September 2011 [Adopted without a vote.] 18/22 Human rights and climate change The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Bearing in mind that 2011 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, Recalling its resolutions 7/23 of 28 March 2008 and 10/4 of 25 March 2009, on human rights and climate change, and 16/11 of 24 March 2011, on human rights and the environment, Reaffirming the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the objectives and principles thereof, and emphasizing that parties should, in all climate change-related actions, fully respect human rights as enunciated in the outcome of the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention,38 Reaffirming also the commitment to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change through long-term cooperative action, now, up to and beyond 2012, in order to achieve the ultimate objective of the Convention, Reaffirming further the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and recognizing that human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development and that the right to development must be fulfilled so as to equitably meet the developmental and environmental needs of present and future generations, Welcoming the decision to organize, in June 2012, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, and taking note of the invitation of the General Assembly, in its resolution 64/236 of 20 December 2009, to organizations and bodies of the United Nations to contribute to the preparatory process for the Conference, Recognizing the challenges of climate change to development and to the progress made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, in particular with 38 GE.12-17756 FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1, dec.1/CP.16. 55

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