A/HRC/2/2 A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36 page 11 8. The legal implications of the disappearance of States and other territories for environmental reasons, including the implications for the human rights of their residents, with particular reference to the rights of indigenous peoples The Human Rights Council, taking note of Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights resolution 2006/16 of 24 August 2006, decides to endorse the decision of the Sub-Commission to appoint Françoise Hampson as Special Rapporteur with the task of preparing a comprehensive study on the legal implications of the disappearance of States and other territories for environmental reasons, including the implications for the human rights of their residents, with particular reference to the rights of indigenous peoples, based on her expanded working paper (E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/28) and her conference room paper (E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.4/2006/CRP.2), as well as the comments received and the discussions that took place at the fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth sessions of the Sub-Commission and the results of the questionnaire endorsed by the Commission in its decision 2005/112 of 20 April 2005, and its request to the Special Rapporteur to submit a preliminary report to the Sub-Commission at its fifty-ninth session or to the first session of any future expert advice mechanism and a progress report and a final report in the following years. The Council also decides to endorse the request to the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the assistance necessary to enable her to accomplish her task. [See chap. II, sect. A, resolution 2006/16, and chap. VII.] 9. Prevention of human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons The Human Rights Council, recalling Commission on Human Rights decision 2003/112 on 25 April 2003 on prevention of human rights violations caused by the availability and misuse of small arms and light weapons and taking note of resolution 2006/22 of 24 August 2006 of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, endorses the request by the Sub-Commission to Barbara Frey to compile and update her study on the prevention of human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons and that the full study, entitled “The prevention of human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons”, be published as part of the Human Rights Study Series, in all the official languages of the United Nations. [See chap. II, sect. A, resolution 2006/22, and chap. VIII.]