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information, where appropriate, on human rights problems which may result in mass exoduses of
populations or impede their voluntary return home, to include, where appropriate, such information,
together with recommendations thereon, in their reports and to bring such information to the attention of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for appropriate action in fulfilment of her
mandate, in consultation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;
8. Requests all United Nations bodies, including the human rights treaty bodies, acting within their
mandates, the specialized agencies and governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental
organizations to cooperate fully with all mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights and, in
particular, to provide them with all relevant information in their possession on the human rights situations
creating or affecting refugees and displaced persons;
9. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in the exercise of her
mandate, as set out in General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, to coordinate human
rights activities throughout the United Nations system and, in cooperation with the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, to pay particular attention to situations which cause or threaten to cause mass
exoduses and to contribute to efforts to address such situations effectively through protection measures,
emergency preparedness and response mechanisms, including information sharing with the United Nations
early-warning mechanisms, and the provision of technical advice, expertise and cooperation in countries
of origin as well as in host countries;
10. Welcomes the efforts of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to contribute
to the creation of an environment viable for return in post-conflict societies through initiatives such as the
rehabilitation of the justice system, the creation of national institutions capable of defending human rights,
broad-based programmes of human rights education and strengthening of local non-governmental
organizations through programmes of advisory services and technical cooperation;
11. Urges the Secretary-General to give high priority and to allocate the necessary resources within
the regular budget of the United Nations for the consolidation and strengthening of emergency
preparedness and response mechanisms, including early-warning activities in the humanitarian area, for
the purpose of ensuring, inter alia, that effective action is taken to identify all human rights abuses which
contribute to mass outflows of persons and to invite comments on this issue;
12. Welcomes with appreciation the contributions of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees to the deliberations by the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-third session and to other
international human rights bodies and mechanisms and the Commission’s invitation to her to address its
fifty-fourth session;
13. Encourages States that have not already done so to consider acceding to the 1951 Convention3
and the 1967 Protocol9 relating to the Status of Refugees and to other relevant regional refugee
instruments, as applicable, and to relevant international human rights instruments;
14. Notes with appreciation that a number of States not parties to the 1951 Convention and the 1967
Protocol continue to maintain a generous approach to asylum;
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