A/HRC/32/L.4 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 22 June 2016 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-second session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Armenia,* Belgium, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Senegal,* Thailand:* draft decision 32/… Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights At its xx meeting, on xx June 2016, the Human Rights Council decided to adopt the text below: “The Human Rights Council, Recalling its resolutions 6/20 of 28 September 2007, 12/15 of 1 October 2009, 18/14 of 29 September 2011, 24/19 of 8 October 2013 and 30/3 of 1 October 2015 on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, Taking note of the letter of the Chair of the Advisory Committee dated 26 February 2016 addressed to the President of the Human Rights Council, 1. Requests the Advisory Committee to prepare a report on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, in particular on the progress made in the establishment of regional and subregional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, and their achievements in all regions of the world, and on the crucial role played by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in advancing cooperation between international and regional human rights mechanisms, and to identify ways to increase the role that regional arrangements play in promoting and protecting human rights and to reinforce universal human rights standards, including as contained in international human rights instruments, and to submit the report to the Human Rights Council before its thirty-ninth session; * State not a member of the Human Rights Council. GE.16-10401(E) 