A/HRC/RES/21/11
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 October 2012
Original: English
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
21/11.
Guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all relevant resolutions on extreme poverty and human rights adopted by
the General Assembly, including resolution 65/214 of 21 December 2010,
Recalling also all previous resolutions adopted by the Subcommission on the
Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, including its resolution 2006/9 of 24 August
2006, in which the Subcommission welcomed and approved the draft guiding principles
prepared by the ad hoc group of experts, and requested the Human Rights Council to study
them with the view to adopting them and forwarding them to the General Assembly,
Recalling further all relevant Human Rights Council resolutions, including
resolution 15/19 of 30 September 2010, in which the Council invited the independent
expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty to pursue further work on the
draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights with a view to submitting a
final draft of the revised guiding principles to the Council at its twenty-first session, in
order to allow the Council to take a decision on the way forward with a view to the
adoption, by 2012, of guiding principles on the rights of persons living in extreme poverty,
and resolution 17/13 of 17 June 2011, in which the Council decided to extend the mandate
of the mandate holder as a special rapporteur,
Welcoming the submission of views and contributions of Member States and other
relevant stakeholders on the draft guiding principles, including in accordance with Human
Rights Council resolution 12/19 of 2 October 2009 and 15/19, as well as the holding of
different rounds of consultations on this matter between 2001 and 2012, the latest being the
two-day consultation organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights on 22 and 23 June 2011,
GE.12-17677
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.