Human Rights Council Resolution 9/12. Human rights voluntary goals The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes, principles and provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming the provisions and the paramount role of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the sixtieth anniversary of which will be celebrated in 2008, in providing the basis for the development of laws and mechanisms to promote and protect human rights, both nationally and internationally, Reaffirming also the provisions and the decisive importance of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the fifteenth anniversary of which is celebrated in 2008, which recognizes that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, Recognizing the importance of the core international human rights instruments, Recognizing also the relevance of the optional protocols to the core international human rights instruments, Taking note with appreciation of the broad support for the initiative to elaborate a set of human rights voluntary goals, inspired by the Millennium Development Goals, which led to the adoption, by consensus, of Council resolution 6/26, Welcoming the open-ended intergovernmental process initiated by the Council in its resolution 6/26, with special attention to the high-level panel on human rights voluntary goals held at the seventh session of the Council, in order to elaborate, on a consensual basis, a set of human rights voluntary goals to promote the realization and implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in accordance with States’ international human rights obligations and commitments, to be launched on 10 December 2008 during the celebrations of the sixtieth anniversary of the Declaration,