A/RES/51/87
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10.
Invites States parties that have been unable to comply with the
requirements to submit their initial report to avail themselves of technical
assistance;
11.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
ensure that the revised Manual on Human Rights Reporting is available in all
official languages at the earliest opportunity;
12.
Encourages the efforts of the treaty bodies to examine the
progress made in achieving the fulfilment of human rights treaty undertakings
by all States parties, without exception;
13.
Urges States parties to address, as a matter of priority, at their
next scheduled meetings, the issue of States parties consistently not
complying with their reporting obligations;
14.
Urges all States parties whose reports have been examined by
treaty bodies to provide adequate follow-up to the observations and final
comments of the treaty bodies on their reports;
15.
Encourages the treaty bodies to continue to identify specific
possibilities for technical assistance, to be provided at the request of the
State concerned, in the regular course of their work of reviewing the periodic
reports of States parties;
16.
Welcomes the recommendation by the meeting of persons chairing the
treaty bodies that treaty bodies urge each State party to translate, publish
and make widely available in its territory the full text of the concluding
observations on its reports to the treaty bodies, and requests the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to make every effort to ensure that
recent reports and the summary records of committee discussions pertaining to
them, as well as concluding observations and final comments of the treaty
bodies, are made available in the United Nations information centres in the
countries submitting those reports;
17.
Also welcomes the contribution to the work of the treaty bodies
made by the specialized agencies and other United Nations bodies, and invites
the specialized agencies, other United Nations bodies and the treaty bodies to
continue to pursue further cooperation between them;
18.
Further welcomes the recommendation of the persons chairing the
treaty bodies that efforts continue to be made to enhance coordination and
cooperation between the treaty bodies and the special rapporteurs,
representatives, experts and working groups of the Commission on Human Rights
and the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities;11
19.
Recognizes the important role played by non-governmental
organizations in the effective implementation of all human rights instruments,
and encourages the exchange of information between the treaty bodies and such
organizations;
11
A/51/482, annex, para. 53.
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