A/HRC/RES/28/6
(d)
To gather, request, receive and exchange information and communications
from and with States and other relevant sources, including persons with albinism and their
representative organizations and other civil society organizations, on violations of the rights
of persons with albinism;
(e)
To conduct, facilitate and support the provision of advisory services,
technical assistance, capacity-building and international cooperation in support of national
efforts for the effective realization of the rights of persons with albinism and to prevent
violence;
(f)
To raise awareness on the rights of persons with albinism and to combat
stereotypes, prejudices and harmful traditional practices and beliefs that hinder their
enjoyment of human rights and participation in society on an equal basis with others;
(g)
To promote awareness of their positive contributions and to inform persons
with albinism about their rights;
(h)
To report to the Human Rights Council, starting from its thirty-first session,
and to the General Assembly;
3.
Requests the Independent Expert to integrate a gender perspective throughout
the work of the mandate and to pay specific attention to the challenges and needs of women
and girls to address the multiple, intersecting and aggravated forms of discrimination faced
by women and girls with albinism;
4.
Calls upon all States to cooperate with the Independent Expert in the
discharge of the mandate, including by providing all information requested, to give serious
consideration to responding favourably to the requests of the Independent Expert to visit
their countries and to consider implementing the recommendations made in the mandate
holder’s reports;
5.
Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights to provide the Independent Expert with all the human, technical and
financial resources necessary for the effective fulfilment of the mandate.
55th meeting
26 March 2015
[Adopted without a vote.]
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