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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.]
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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
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