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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Second session
Agenda item 2
IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251
OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL”
Argentina, Canada, Denmark*, Ghana, Netherlands,
Nicaragua*, Romania:  draft resolution
2/…  Impunity
	The Human Rights Council,
	Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/81 of 21 April 2005 on impunity,
	1.	Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to ensure the wide dissemination of the updated Set of Principles for the protection and promotion of human rights through action to combat impunity (E/CN.4/2005/102 and Add.1), to continue to support judicial mechanisms and commissions of inquiry and to provide, upon request, technical and legal assistance in developing national legislation and institutions to combat impunity in accordance with international standards of justice, fairness and due process of law;
				
*  Non-member States of the Human Rights Council.
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	2.	Welcomes the efforts of the Office of the High Commissioner to strengthen its capacity and expertise to provide support for international and national commissions of inquiry and fact-finding missions upon request or in accordance with its mandates, and encourages its continued endeavours;
	3.	Requests the High Commissioner to continue to report to the Human Rights Council on the latest developments in international law and practice relevant to combating impunity, including international jurisprudence and State practice, and on the work of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and other parts of the United Nations system.
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