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30.
Requests the Human Rights Council to authorize ten meetings for the Working
Group on Indigenous Populations prior to the fifty-ninth session of the Sub-Commission or of
the first session of any future expert advice mechanism in 2007;
31.
adoption:
Recommends to the Human Rights Council the following draft decision for
[For the text, see chap. I, draft decision 5.]
21st meeting
24 August 2006
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. VII.]
2006/14. Discrimination based on work and descent
The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,
Recalling its resolutions 2000/4 of 11 August 2000, 2003/22 of 13 August 2003, 2004/17
of 12 August 2004 and 2005/22 of 11 August 2005, and Commission on Human Rights
decision 2005/109 of 19 April 2005,
Welcoming the progress report on discrimination based on work and descent
(A/HRC/Sub.1/58/CRP.2) submitted by the Special Rapporteurs, Yozo Yokota and
Chin-Sung Chung,
Regretting, however, that more replies were not received from Governments, national
human rights institutions and relevant organs and agencies of the United Nations system in
response to the questionnaire issued by the Special Rapporteurs, and that the regional
workshops proposed by the Special Rapporteurs and endorsed by the Sub-Commission in its
resolution 2005/22 could not be held,
Emphasizing the importance of continuing and completing the study on discrimination
based on work and descent, and of finalizing draft principles and guidelines for the effective
elimination of this form of discrimination,
1.
Requests the Special Rapporteurs to continue and complete their study on
discrimination based on work and descent, to finalize draft principles and guidelines for the
effective elimination of this form of discrimination and to submit their final report in 2007 to the
Sub-Commission or its successor body, or in the absence of either, to the Human Rights Council;
2.
Endorses the Special Rapporteurs’ proposals to organize (i) two regional
workshops, one in Asia and one in Africa, before the end of the first quarter of 2007 by obtaining
independent funding, in order to encourage the interactive participation of representatives of
affected communities in discussions with the Special Rapporteurs on this topic; and (ii) a
consultation meeting in Geneva during the second quarter of 2007, in order for the Special
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