A/HRC/RES/17/6
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 July 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Seventeenth 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∗
17/6
Mandate of the independent expert on human rights and
international solidarity
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions and decisions adopted by the Commission on
Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the issue of human rights and
international solidarity, including Commission resolution 2005/55 of 20 April 2005,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March
2006,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on the 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 or her
duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Recalling also the importance, in view of the promotion and protection of
international solidarity, of the declarations and programmes of action of international
conferences, such as the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna in 1993, the
International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in
2002, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in
Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2002, and the World Conference on Disaster Reduction,
held in Kobe, Japan, in 2005,
Reaffirming that the widening gap between economically developed and developing
countries is unsustainable and that it impedes the realization of human rights in the
∗
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its seventeenth session (A/HRC/17/2), chap. I.
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