Manual of the United Nations Human Rights Special Procedures. Draft
- Document number
- 1885
- Date
- 2006
- Title
- Manual of the United Nations Human Rights Special Procedures. Draft
- Author/publisher
- United Nations (UN)
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- Document type(s)
- Training Material/Resources,
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- Summary
- This Manual aims to provide guidance to the mandate-holders appointed under the various United Nations human rights Special Procedures. It also seeks to facilitate a better understanding of their work by all other stakeholders in the process. The Manual endeavours to reflect best practice and to assist the mandate-holders in their efforts to promote and protect human rights. It does so in light of the relevant mandates by which the various Special Procedures have been established and of the overall mandate given to the Human Rights Council in General Assembly resolution 60/251.
This Manual was originally adopted at the 6th Annual Meeting of Special Procedures mandate-holders, in 1999. Since that time it has been revised to reflect the changing structure of the United Nations human rights machinery, new developments in relation to mandates, and the evolving working methods of the mandate-holders. It is subject to periodic review and updating by the mandate-holders. They are responsible for its content and for its revision. The current version of the Manual was adopted by the mandate-holders on […]. - Related documents