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1/10. Publication of studies completed by the Sub-Commission
on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee,
Noting the clear public interest on the part of States, civil society and the academic
community in the provision of access to the wealth of varied analytical and theoretical
knowledge built up by the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,
Recommends that the Human Rights Council authorize that all reports and working papers
that have been completed and submitted to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights pursuant to the resolutions and decisions of the Sub-Commission at its
fifty-eighth session be issued as United Nations documents and be sent to the Council.
16th meeting
15 August 2008
1/11. New bodies established by the Human Rights Council
At its 16th plenary meeting, held on 15 August 2008, the Advisory Committee designated
Committee members Mr. José Bengoa and Ms. Purificacion Valera Quisumbing to follow the
work of the Social Forum and to brief the Committee, at its next session in January 2009, on
issues of relevance to the work of the Committee. The Advisory Committee also designated the
members Ms. Mona Zulficar and Mr. Miguel Alfonso Martinez to follow the work of the forum
on minority issues and the expert mechanism on the rights of indigenous peoples, respectively,
and to brief the Committee at its next session on issues of relevance to its work.
16th meeting
15 August 2008
1/12. The right of peoples to self-determination
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, section III, paragraph 77, in which the
Council stated that the Advisory Committee may make research proposals within the scope of
the work set out by the Council,
Bearing in mind General Assembly resolution 62/144 of 18 December 2007 on the
universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination, in which the Assembly
requested the Council to continue to give special attention to the violation of human rights,
especially the right to self-determination,
Bearing in mind also the different points of view expressed by a large number of
participants on the various and complex issues relating to the content and realization of the right
of all peoples, including indigenous peoples, to self-determination.
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