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the Commission for Social Development of the Economic and Social Council, civil society
organizations, including organizations of persons with disabilities, and national human
rights institutions, and requests that the study be made available on the website of the
Office of the High Commissioner, in an accessible format, prior to the nineteenth session of
the Human Rights Council;
18.
Encourages organizations of persons with disabilities, national monitoring
bodies and human rights institutions to participate actively in the debate referred to in
paragraph 16 above, as well as in regular and special sessions of the Human Rights Council
and its working groups;
19.
Encourages the special procedures mandate holders of the Human Rights
Council to cooperate, as appropriate and in accordance with their respective mandates, with
the Special Rapporteur on disability of the Commission for Social Development;
20.
Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure that the Office of the
High Commissioner, in its mandates on the rights of persons with disabilities, and the
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities are given adequate resources for the
fulfilment of their tasks;
21.
Requests the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner to continue the
progressive implementation of standards and guidelines for the accessibility of facilities and
services of the United Nations system, also taking into account relevant provisions of the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and underlines that the Human
Rights Council, including its Internet resources, should be fully accessible to persons with
disabilities.
46th meeting
24 March 2011
[Adopted without a vote.]
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Enforced or involuntary disappearances
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the relevant articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that protect the right of life, the
right of liberty and security of the person, the right not to be subjected to torture and the
right to recognition as a person before the law,
Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolution 20 (XXXVI) of 29 February
1980, in which the Commission decided to establish a working group of five members to
serve as experts in their individual capacity and to examine questions relevant to enforced
or involuntary disappearances, and also all previous resolutions on this subject, in particular
Human Rights Council resolution 7/12 of 27 March 2008, in which the Council renewed by
consensus the mandate of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 47/133 of 18 December 1992, by which
the Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance as a body of principles for States,
Welcoming the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of
All Persons from Enforced Disappearance on 23 December 2010 and the fact that eighty
eight States have signed it and twenty three States have ratified or acceded to it, and
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