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(ii)
Strengthened capacity to receive and thoroughly analyse early warning
signals emanating from all sources, and provide the results of these analyses to
the High Commissioner for onward transmission to the President of the
Council.
72.
Upon receipt of the results of these analyses, the President of the Council, in
consultation with the Bureau, should determine the course of action to be taken,
including confidential Council sessions, preventive diplomacy or good offices missions
to the State concerned. The composition of the good offices missions should be
determined on a case-by-case basis and could include members of the Council, special
procedure mandate holders, OHCHR and representatives of regional/subregional
organizations.
73.
In the event that diplomatic efforts fail to yield the desired outcomes, the
Council should convene a special session to determine a further course of action to be
taken by the Council.
74.
The Council should also give a mandate to the High Commissioner to report on
early warning situations during each of its sessions. Such reporting should be done in
the form of a regional horizon scanning, focusing on risk factors and emerging crises.
75.
In order to ensure a closer working relationship with the peace and security
pillar, the Council should:
(a)
Seek more systematic invitations for its mechanisms to participate in the
deliberations of the Security Council;
(b)
Systematize and strengthen its working relationships with the Special
Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and the Special
Representatives of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and for
Children and Armed Conflict by inviting them more regularly to its sessions and/or
requesting them to report to it on their areas of work and activities, or conduct joint
activities, including joint reporting, with special procedures;
(c)
Identify reports that should be shared officially, through the SecretaryGeneral, with the Security Council and/or the Peacebuilding Commission;
(d)
Encourage the Peacebuilding Commission and its different country
configurations to invite the Council’s mechanisms to participate in their deliberations;
(e)
Encourage the senior representatives of United Nations regional
presences to include inputs from the Council’s mechanisms, obtained through
OHCHR or United Nations country teams, in their reports to the Security Council,
and invite them to intervene, in person or through video links, in country-specific
discussions at the Council.
76.
In order to ensure a closer working relationship with the United Nations
development pillar, the Council should:
(a)
Include systematically inputs from United Nations country teams in the
reports compiled by OHCHR for the universal periodic review;
(b)
Invite more systematically United Nations resident coordinators to
intervene, in person or through video links, in country-specific discussions at the
Council;
(c)
Extend an invitation to the President of the Economic and Social Council
to address it each year on the outcomes of the high-level political forum;
(d)
Encourage the setting up of national mechanisms for implementation,
reporting and follow-up, with the participation of United Nations country teams;
(e)
Advocate for the systematic inclusion of human rights advisers in United
Nations country teams to promote cooperation of such teams with the Council’s
mechanisms and to ensure that the recommendations made by the latter, and other
human rights concerns, are integrated into United Nations sustainable development
cooperation frameworks;
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