A/HRC/19/2
Having conducted the review of Antigua and Barbuda on 4 October 2011 in
conformity with all the relevant provisions contained in Council resolution 5/1,
Adopts the outcome of the universal periodic review on Antigua and Barbuda which
is constituted of the report of the Working Group on Antigua and Barbuda (A/HRC/19/5),
together with the views of Antigua and Barbuda concerning the recommendations and/or
conclusions, as well as its voluntary commitments and its replies presented before the
adoption of the outcome by the plenary to questions or issues that were not sufficiently
addressed during the interactive dialogue in the Working Group (A/HRC/19/5/Add.1 and
A/HRC/19/2, chapter VI).
42nd meeting
16 March 2012
[Adopted without a vote.]
19/119
Task force on secretariat services, accessibility for persons with
disabilities and use of information technology
At its 52nd meeting, on 22 March 2012, the Human Rights Council decided to adopt
the following text:
“The Human Rights Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 65/281 of 29 June 2011 on the review
of the Human Rights Council,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolution 16/21 of 25 March 2011 on
the review of the work and functioning of the Human Rights Council, in particular
paragraph 61 of the annex thereto, in which the Council decided to establish a task
force to study the issues of secretariat services, accessibility for persons with
disabilities and use of information technology, as envisaged in paragraphs 57, 58, 59
and 60 of the annex,
Recalling further that, in resolution 16/21, the Human Rights Council
requested the task force to submit concrete recommendations to the Council at its
nineteenth session,
Reaffirming that compliance with the applicable rules of procedure of the
Council shall be ensured,
1.
Welcomes the report submitted by the task force, annexed to the
present decision;
2.
Endorses the report of the task force, including its recommendations
with the modalities made therein in the report;
3.
Invites all concerned stakeholders to follow up adequately on the
recommendations with the modalities described made by the task force in its report,
and to immediately commence implementing those without financial implications
and those which may be implemented from within existing resources;
4.
Decides to consider, at its twenty-first session, the task force
recommendations with the modalities described in the report that cannot be
implemented from within existing resources, in the context of the preparations for
the 2014–2015 regular budget biennium, and to transmit thereafter the task force
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