A/HRC/RES/16/14
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 April 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Sixteenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council*
16/14
Mandate of the independent expert on the effects of foreign
debt and other related international financial obligations of
States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly
economic, social and cultural rights
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions and decisions adopted by the Commission on
Human Rights in connection with the effects of structural adjustment and economic reform
policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic,
social and cultural rights, including resolutions 1998/24 of 17 April 1998, 1999/22 of 23
April 1999, 2000/82 of 26 April 2000, 2004/18 of 16 April 2004 and 2005/19 of 14 April
2005, as well as Human Rights Council decision 2/109 of 27 November 2006 and
resolutions 7/4 of 27 March 2008, 11/5 of 17 June 2009, and 14/4 of 17 June 2010,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the
Council, and 5/2, on the code of conduct for special procedures mandate holders of the
Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his/her
duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Noting that, despite the efforts made, the effects of the debt problem are not over and
that heavy debt burdens continue to contribute to extreme poverty and to undermine the
capacity of Governments, particularly in developing countries, to create the conditions
necessary for the achievement of sustainable human development and the realization of
human rights,
* The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its sixteenth session (A/HRC/16/2), chap. I.
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