Human Rights Council: Conclusion of the Twelfth Session
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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics
United Nations, New York, 2 October 2009 - This morning in Geneva, the Human Rights Council decided to defer action on a draft resolution concerning human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. That draft dealt with the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, which had been headed by Justice Richard Goldstone. Because of that decision, which was requested by the draft resolutions sponsors, the Human Rights Council will now take up the text at its thirteenth session, to be held in March 2010. In related news, the Human Rights Council today adopted six resolutions and one decision on a wide variety of subjects, including on the: freedom of opinion and expression; elimination of discrimination against women; adverse effects of toxic waste dumping on human rights; effects of foreign debt on human rights; extreme poverty and human rights; Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners in Myanmar; and promoting human rights in accordance with traditional human values and international human rights law. http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/
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