UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/RES/12/28 12 October 2009 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twelfth session Agenda item 3 PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council* 12/28. Follow-up to the tenth special session of the Human Rights Council on the impact of the global economic and financial crises on the universal realization and effective enjoyment of human rights The Human Rights Council, Guided by the principles and objectives of the Charter of the United Nations, Guided also by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Reaffirming that peace and security, development and human rights are the interrelated pillars of the United Nations system, Reaffirming also that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated and that they must be treated in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis, Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which the Assembly affirmed that the Council should be responsible for promoting universal respect for the protection of all * The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its twelfth session (A/HRC/12/50), chap. I. GE.09-16759