United Nations A/HRC/27/L.15/Rev.1
 General Assembly Distr.: Limited
24 September 2014

Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-seventh session
Agenda item 5
Human rights bodies and mechanisms
		Angola,* Bolivia (Plurinational State of),* Costa Rica (on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States), Cuba, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,* Ethiopia, Lebanon,* Malaysia,* Panama,* Sri Lanka,* State of Palestine,* Sudan,* Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): draft resolution
		27/…  Promotion of the right to peace
	The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all previous resolutions on the promotion of the right of peoples to peace adopted by the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, in particular Council resolution 20/15 of 5 July 2012,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 39/11 of 12 November 1984, entitled “Declaration of the Right of Peoples to Peace”, and the United Nations Millennium Declaration, as well as other relevant international documents,
Welcoming the important work being carried out by civil society organizations, academia and other stakeholders for the promotion of the right to peace and their contribution to the development of this issue,
Taking note of the report of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on its second session, held from 30 June to 4 July 2014, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 20/15, in particular of the inputs from Governments, regional and political groups, civil society and relevant stakeholders, and the text presented by the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the working group, as requested by the Council in its resolution 23/16 of 13 June 2013,
1.	Decides that the working group shall hold its third session for five working days in 2015 with the objective of finalizing the declaration;
2.	Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide the working group with the assistance necessary for it to fulfil its mandate;
3.	Requests the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the working group to conduct informal consultations with Governments, regional groups and relevant stakeholders before the third session of the working group;
4.	Also requests the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the working group to prepare a revised text on the basis of the discussions held during the first and second sessions of the working group and on the basis of the intersessional informal consultations to be held, and to present it prior to the third session of the working group for consideration and further discussion thereat;
5.	Invites States, civil society and all relevant stakeholders to contribute actively and constructively to the work of the working group;
6.	Requests the working group to prepare a report and to submit it to the Human Rights Council, to be made available in all official languages of the United Nations, for consideration at its twenty-ninth session.
			
	*	Non-member State of the Human Rights Council.
		A/HRC/27/63.

	

	









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