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regional organizations, relevant United Nations agencies and organizations, including the
World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations
Population Fund, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of
Women and the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the
Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical
and mental health and other relevant special procedures, and the World Bank;
9.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to invite States and all other
relevant stakeholders, including regional organizations, the World Health Organization, the
United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women, relevant special procedures, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Bank,
civil society and national human rights institutions, to submit information to the Office of
the High Commissioner on initiatives that exemplify good or effective practices in adopting
a human rights-based approach to eliminating preventable maternal mortality and
morbidity;
10.
Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare, on the basis of
the above-mentioned submissions, an analytical compilation that includes an identification
of how such initiatives embody a human rights-based approach, the elements of these
initiatives that succeed in achieving reductions in maternal mortality and morbidity through
a human rights-based approach, and ways in which similar initiatives could give effect
more fully to a human rights-based approach;
11.
Decides to address the analytical compilation requested in paragraph 10
above within its programme of work at its eighteenth session, and to consider taking further
action on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights.
31st meeting
30 September 2010
[Adopted without a vote.]
15/18
Arbitrary detention
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming articles 3, 9, 10 and 29, as well as other relevant provisions, of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Recalling articles 9 to 11 and 14 to 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights,
Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1991/42 of 5 March 1991
and 1997/50 of 15 April 1997, as well as Council resolutions 6/4 of 28 September 2007 and
10/9 of 26 March 2009,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006 entitled
“Human Rights Council”,
Recalling resolution 5/1 entitled “Institution-building of the United Nations Human
Rights Council” and resolution 5/2 entitled “Code of Conduct for Special Procedures
Mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council”, of 18 June 2007, stressing that the
mandate holder shall discharge his/her duties in accordance with these resolutions and the
annexes thereto,
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