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15. Invites the High Commissioner to continue to provide information on cooperation
with other United Nations bodies and also invites her to make available information concerning
agreements with other United Nations bodies and their implementation, in an open and
transparent manner, as appropriate;
16. Requests the High Commissioner to take further measures to implement the
recommendations of the Joint Inspection Unit with a view to improving the geographic balance
of the staff composition of her Office at all levels;
17. Emphasizes in this regard the need to take into account the request made by
General Assembly resolution 61/244 of 22 December 2006 that the Secretary-General present to
the Assembly, in consultation with the Office of the High Commissioner, proposals to address
the imbalance in the geographic distribution of the staff in that Office;
18. Again invites the High Commissioner to submit information pursuant to the present
resolution in her annual report to the Council;
19. Decides to consider the implementation of the present resolution at a future session
under the relevant agenda item.
31st meeting
30 March 2007
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 35,
with 12 abstentions. See chap. III.]
4/7. Rectification of the legal status of the Committee
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Human Rights Council,
Bearing in mind that the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is
established by Economic and Social Council resolution 1985/17 of 28 May 1985, while all other
treaty bodies are established in terms of provisions in the relevant treaties,
Underlining the principles of the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in
1993 that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated and that they
must be treated on an equal footing and with the same emphasis,
Decides:
(a) To initiate a process to rectify, in accordance with international law, in particular the
law of international treaties, the legal status of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, with the aim of placing the Committee on a par with all other treaty monitoring bodies;
(b) To request, in the above context, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights to present a report outlining views, proposals and recommendations on this issue to the
last session of the Human Rights Council in 2007 in order to assist in the achievement of the
above aim;
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