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6 December 2006

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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Fourth special session 
12 December 2006

			Algeria (on behalf of the African Group):
				          draft resolution


  The human rights situation in Darfur

The Human Rights Council,

-  Taking note of Decision n° 2/115 of the second session of the Human Rights Council on Darfur;

- Recognizing the need for the Council to be provided with clear, accurate and substantiated information on the human rights situation in Darfur ;

Welcomes the cooperation established by the Government of Sudan with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Sudan and calls upon the Government to continue to intensify its cooperation with the Human Rights Council, its mechanisms, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ;

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  Notes with concern the seriousness of the human rights and humanitarian situation in Darfur despite the conclusion of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) which some parties have yet to sign ;

             3-  Calls on the parties who did not sign the DPA to do so and on all parties to
observe the cease-fire ;

Calls upon the international community at large and on the donor   countries and peace partners in particular to honour their pledges of support inter alia to AMIS whose mandates has recently been extended and to provide urgent and adequate financial and technical assistance to the Government of the Sudan and to the relevant state and non-state agencies in the promotion and protection of human rights ;

Welcomes the initiative of the Government of Sudan to invite officials and members of the Human Rights Council to gain first hand information on the human rights situation in Darfur ;


Decides to dispatch a Mission to assess the human rights situation in Darfur, to be headed by the President of the Council and to include the members of the Bureau and the regional group coordinators members of the Council and further requests the Mission to report to the Council at its fourth session.
	
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