A/HRC/DEC/19/119
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 April 2012
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Nineteenth session
Agenda item 1
Organizational and procedural matters
Decision adopted by the Human Rights Council**
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.
decision;
Welcomes the report submitted by the task force, annexed to the present
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;
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GE.12-13612
Reissued for technical reasons on 24 May 2012.
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in
the report of the Council on its nineteenth session (A/HRC/19/2), chap. I.
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