A/HRC/RES/21/17
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 October 2012
English
Original: French
Human Rights Council
Twenty-first 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**
21/17
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human
rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of
hazardous substances and wastes
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March
2006,
Recalling its resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Human Rights 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,
Recalling also its resolutions 9/1 of 24 September 2008 and 18/11 of 27 September
2011, and all the resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights on this matter,
1.
Takes note of the report of the previous Special Rapporteur on the
implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of
hazardous substances and wastes;1
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GE.12-18154
Reissued for technical reasons on 12 November 2012.
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its twenty-first session (A/HRC/21/2), chap. I.
A/HRC/21/48 and Corr.1.
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