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I.
DRAFT DECISIONS RECOMMENDED TO THE
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION
1. Right to an effective remedy
The Human Rights Council, taking note of Sub-Commission on the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights resolution 2006/2 of 24 August 2006, decides to endorse the
decision of the Sub-Commission to appoint Mohamed Habib Cherif as Special Rapporteur with
the task of preparing a comprehensive study on the implementation in practice of the right to an
effective remedy for human rights violations based on his working paper on the right to an
effective remedy in criminal proceedings (E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/13), the working paper of
Françoise Hampson on the implementation in domestic law of the right to an effective
remedy E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/15), and the conference room paper by both of them
(A/HRC/Sub.1/58/CRP.4), 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 any future expert advice mechanism, 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 him to accomplish his task.
[See chap. II, sect. A, resolution 2006/2,
and chap. V.]
2.
Accountability of international personnel taking
part in peace support operations
The Human Rights Council, taking note of Sub-Commission on the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights resolution 2006/3 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 accountability of international personnel taking
part in peace support operations, based on her working paper (E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/42) and her
conference room paper (A/HRC/Sub.1/58/CRP.3), 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 its request to the Special Rapporteur to submit a preliminary report to the fifty-ninth session
or to the first session of the future expert advice mechanism, a progress report and a final report
in subsequent 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, including the possibility of visiting United Nations Headquarters.
[See chap. II, sect. A, resolution 2006/3,
and chap. V.]
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