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5.
Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to ensure transparency in its
activities and operation through a process of continued dialogue and consultations with Member
States through, inter alia, regular briefings and taking into account relevant resolutions of the
General Assembly and the Council;
6.
Requests the High Commissioner in this regard to provide all States with adequate
financial and budgetary information on the Office by, inter alia, holding informal briefings on
voluntary contributions, including their share of the overall full-cost budget of the human rights
programme, and their allocation;
7.
Reiterates the need to ensure that all necessary financial, material and personnel
resources are provided from the regular budget of the United Nations without delay to the
United Nations human rights programme to enable the Office of the High Commissioner to carry
out its mandates efficiently, effectively and expeditiously;
8.
Welcomes the voluntary contributions to the Office of the High Commissioner, in
particular those from developing countries, and in this context calls upon donors to take into
account the High Commissioner’s call for unearmarked contributions;
9.
Reaffirms that the tasks of the High Commissioner include promoting and protecting
the realization of the right to development and that the Office of the High Commissioner should
devote adequate resources and staff to its follow-up, with a view to enhancing activities of the
Office for its effective realization;
10. Calls upon the High Commissioner to continue to emphasize the promotion and
protection of economic, social and cultural rights in the activities of her Office and, in that
regard, encourages the High Commissioner to continue to strengthen her relationship with the
appropriate bodies, funds and specialized agencies of the United Nations;
11. Also calls upon the High Commissioner to continue to strengthen the management
structure of her Office, including human resource management, and to improve the
responsiveness of her Office in all priority areas, especially economic, social and cultural rights,
which require particular research and analytical capacity;
12. Requests the High Commissioner to enhance international cooperation for the
promotion and protection of all human rights and to engage in a dialogue with all Governments
in the implementation of her mandate with a view to securing respect for all human rights;
13. Declares that advisory services and technical cooperation provided at the request of
Governments with a view to developing national capacities and national ownership in the field of
human rights constitute one of the most efficient and effective means of promoting and
protecting all human rights and democracy;
14. Emphasizes the need for an increase in the allocation of resources from within the
United Nations regular budget for advisory services and technical cooperation in the field of
human rights;
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