A/HRC/17/2
Drugs and Crime, the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons, the
Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, including its Working Group on Trafficking in Persons and the Working
Group on the Review of the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto, treaty bodies and regional human
rights mechanisms, as well as national human rights institutions, civil society and the
private sector;
(i)
Report annually on the implementation of the present resolution to the
Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, according to their respective
programmes of work;
3.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to ensure
that the Special Rapporteur receives the resources necessary to enable him or her to
discharge the mandate fully;
4.
Calls upon all Governments to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur and to
consider responding favourably to his or her requests to visit their countries, and to provide
him or her with all necessary information relating to the mandate to enable him or her to
fulfil the mandate effectively;
5.
Encourages Governments to refer to the Recommended Principles and
Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking developed by the Office of the High
Commissioner1 as a useful tool in integrating a human rights-based approach into their
responses to combat trafficking in persons;
6.
Decides to continue consideration of the issue of trafficking in persons,
especially women and children, in accordance with its annual programme of work.
33rd meeting
16 June 2011
[Adopted without a vote.]
17/2
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and
lawyers
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by articles 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
and articles 2, 4, 9, 14 and 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
and bearing in mind the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,
Recalling the Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary; the Basic
Principles on the Role of Lawyers; the Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors and the
Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct,
Convinced that an independent and impartial judiciary, an independent legal
profession and the integrity of the judicial system are essential prerequisites for the
protection of human rights and for ensuring that there is no discrimination in the
administration of justice,
Recalling all previous resolutions and decisions of the Commission on Human
Rights and the General Assembly on the independence of the judiciary and on the integrity
of the judicial system,
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