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21 March 2007
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Fourth session 
Agenda item 2
IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251
OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL”
                 4/…    Follow-up to the decision of 13 December 2006 adopted by the 
Human Rights Council at its 4th special session entitled 
“Situation of human rights in Darfur” (S-4/101)

Germany : draft decision

The Human Rights Council,

Recalling its decision S-4/101, adopted by consensus, establishing a High-Level Mission to
assess the human rights situation in Darfur and requesting the High-Level Mission to report to
the Council at its 4th session, 

Recalling that the Government of Sudan welcomed this decision and expressed its willingness to co-operate,

1.	Takes note with regret that the High-Level Mission could not visit Darfur;


2.	Takes note of the report of the High-Level Mission;

3.	Expresses its deep concern regarding the seriousness of the ongoing violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in Darfur, including attacks by rebel and Government forces on civilian population and humanitarian workers, bombing of villages, and continued and widespread sexual violence, as well the lack of accountability of perpetrators of such crimes;

4.	Calls upon all parties to the conflict in Darfur to cease all acts of violence against civilians, with a special focus on vulnerable groups including women, children and internally displaced persons, as well as humanitarian workers; 

5.	Calls upon the signatories of the Darfur Peace Agreement to comply with their obligations under the agreement, and upon non-signatory parties to join in and to commit themselves to the peace agreement;

6.	Decides to convene a group to be presided over by the Special Rapporteur on Sudan composed of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on children in armed conflict, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders, the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons, the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences; 

7.	Requests this group to work with the Government of Sudan and the appropriate human rights mechanisms of the African Union to ensure the effective follow-up and implementation of the existing relevant human rights recommendations on Darfur, to safeguard their consistency and to contribute to monitoring the human rights situation on the ground;

8.	Calls upon the Government of Sudan to fully co-operate with the group;

9.	Requests the group to report to the Council at its 5th session;

10.	Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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