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14.
Encourages the Secretary-General to continue to give high priority to
requests from Member States for assistance in the establishment and strengthening of
national human rights institutions in accordance with the Paris Principles;
15.
Welcomes the efforts made by the High Commissioner to strengthen United
Nations system-wide coordination in support of national human rights institutions,
including the tripartite partnership between the United Nations Development Programme,
the Office of the High Commissioner and the Global Alliance of National Human Rights
Institutions,7 and encourages all United Nations human rights mechanisms, and its agencies,
funds and programmes to work within their respective mandates with national human rights
institutions;
16.
Calls upon the Secretary-General to continue to encourage national human
rights institutions to interact with and advocate for independent participation in all relevant
United Nations mechanisms and processes, in accordance with their respective mandates;
17.
Recognizes the important role played by national human rights institutions in
the Human Rights Council, including its universal periodic review mechanism, in both
preparation and follow-up, and the special procedures, and in engaging with the human
rights treaty bodies, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 60/251 of 15 March
2006 and 65/281 of 17 June 2011, Council resolutions 5/1 and 5/2 of 18 June 2007, Council
decision 19/119 of 22 March 2012 and Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/74
of 20 April 2005;
18.
Encourages national human rights institutions to continue to participate in
and contribute to the work of the Human Rights Council, including the universal periodic
review, and to continue to engage with the special procedures and treaty bodies by, inter
alia, providing parallel reports and other information;
19.
Commends in particular the increasing engagement of national human rights
institutions at all stages of the universal periodic review, and encourages national human
rights institutions to monitor, promote and support the implementation of accepted
recommendations in their respective national contexts;
20.
Welcomes the increased engagement between the special procedures and
national human rights institutions, including during country and follow-up visits and on
thematic reports, and encourages the deepening of such engagement, including through the
participation of national human rights institutions following the presentation of country
mission reports to the Human Rights Council;
21.
Takes note of the decision of the Chairs of the human rights treaty bodies to
consider a common treaty body approach to engagement with national human rights
institutions at their twenty-ninth annual meeting, in 2017;8
22.
Encourages the human rights treaty bodies, within their respective mandates
and in accordance with the treaties establishing these mechanisms, to continue to consider a
common treaty body approach to engaging national human rights institutions to ensure the
effective and enhanced participation by national human rights institutions compliant with
the Paris Principles at all relevant stages of their work;
23.
Welcomes the endorsement by the General Assembly of the strengthening of
opportunities for national human rights institutions compliant with the Paris Principles to
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General Assembly resolution 70/163, para. 19.
See A/71/270, para. 92.
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