6.
Encourages all States that have not done so to consider signing, ratifying or acceding
to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance;
7.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
prepare a comprehensive study, to be presented to the Council at its twelfth session, on best
practices for the effective implementation of this right, including, in particular, practices relating
to archives and records concerning gross violations of human rights with a view to create
guidelines on protecting archives and records concerning gross human rights violations, and
programmes for the protection of witnesses and other persons involved in trials connected with
such violations;
8.
Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a report, to be
presented to the Council at its fifteenth session, on the use of forensic experts in case of gross
violations of human rights with a view to identifying trends and best practices in this regard;
9.
Decides to convene a panel to discuss issues related to the present resolution at its
thirteenth session;
10. Invites special rapporteurs and other mechanisms of the Council, in the framework of
their mandates, to take into account, as appropriate, the issue of the right to the truth;
11. Decides to consider this matter at its twelfth session under the same agenda item or at
the corresponding session in conformity with its annual programme of work.
22nd meeting
24 September 2008
[Adopted without a vote.]
9/12. Human rights voluntary goals
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes, principles and provisions of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the provisions and the paramount role of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, the sixtieth anniversary of which is celebrated in 2008, in providing the basis for
the development of laws and mechanisms to promote and protect human rights, both nationally
and internationally,
Reaffirming also the provisions and the decisive importance of the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action, the fifteenth anniversary of which is celebrated in 2008, which recognizes
that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated,
Recognizing the importance of the core international human rights instruments,
Recognizing also the relevance of the optional protocols to the core international human
rights instruments,
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