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2.
Decides to appoint Françoise Hampson as Special Rapporteur with the task of
preparing a comprehensive study on the accountability of international personnel taking part in
peace support operations based on her working paper and conference room paper 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 requests the Special Rapporteur to submit
a preliminary report to the Sub-Commission at its fifty-ninth session or to the first session of the
future expert advice mechanism and a progress report and final report in the following years;
3.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the
assistance necessary to accomplish this task, including the possibility of visiting United Nations
Headquarters;
4.
adoption:
Recommends the following draft decision to the Human Rights Council for
[For the text, see chap. I, draft decision 2.]
5.
Requests Ms. Hampson, should she not be appointed Special Rapporteur, for
whatever reason, to prepare an updated working paper on the accountability of international
personnel taking part in peace support operations, to be submitted to the fifty-ninth session of the
Sub-Commission or the first session of the future expert advice mechanism;
6.
Decides to continue consideration of this issue at its fifty-ninth session under the
same agenda item or recommends consideration of this issue during the first session of the future
expert advice mechanism.
21st meeting
24 August 2006
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. V.]
2006/4. The difficulty of establishing guilt or responsibility with
regard to sexual violence
The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,
Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the various legal instruments
adopted at the national, regional and international levels,
Reaffirming that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person and to an
effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the inherent dignity and
value of the human person, as well as the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or
by law,
Reaffirming also that everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by
an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations or of any
criminal charge against him,
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