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4.
Underlines the need for the treaty bodies, special rapporteurs/representatives,
independent experts and working groups of the Council, within their mandates, to take into
consideration the content of the present resolution;
5.
Decides to consider this issue again at its future session.
31st meeting
30 March 2007
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 34 to 13.
See chap. III.]
4/6. Strengthening of the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Commission on
Human Rights, in particular Assembly resolutions 48/141 of 20 December 1993 and 55/234
of 23 December 2000, and Commission resolutions 1998/83 of 24 April 1998, 1999/54 of
27 April 1999, 2000/1 of 7 April 2000, 2002/2 of 12 April 2002 and 2004/2 of 8 April 2004,
Recalling paragraph 5 (g) of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, in
which the Assembly decided that the Human Rights Council should assume the role and
responsibilities of the Commission on Human Rights relating to the work of the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as decided by the General Assembly in
its resolution 48/141,
Taking note with satisfaction that the regular budget resources of the Office of the
High Commissioner will be doubled by 2010,
Taking note with appreciation that the unearmarked contributions of donors are on the
increase, which gives the Office of the High Commissioner flexibility in the allocation of
resources for its operational activities in accordance with the resolutions of the Council and other
relevant United Nations organs and bodies, and with a view to treating all human rights in a fair
and equal manner,
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated
and that the international community must treat human rights globally in a fair and equal
manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis,
Recalling that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve international
cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights,
Reaffirming the importance of ensuring universality, objectivity and non-selectivity in the
consideration of human rights issues and, in this context, underlining the need for continuing to
ensure the implementation of these principles by the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights in the fulfilment of her mandate and the activities of her Office,
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