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16. Invites States, as well as relevant United Nations agencies and treaty
bodies, relevant special procedures mandate holders of the Human Rights Council,
intergovernmental organizations, national human rights institutions and
non-governmental organizations, especially those working with people living in
extreme poverty, and other relevant stakeholders, to contribute to the work of the
High Commissioner by expressing their views, comments and suggestions on the
progress report on the draft guiding principles submitted by the independent expert
on the question of human rights and extreme poverty; 17
17. Invites the independent expert and relevant stakeholders, including
representatives of States, development and human rights practitioners and
organizations at the local, national, regional and international levels, to participate
in the two-day consultation on the progress report on the draft guiding principles
that the High Commissioner will organize, within existing resources, in Geneva
before June 2011;
18. Welcomes the efforts of entities throughout the United Nations system to
incorporate the Millennium Declaration and the internationally agreed development
goals set out therein into their work;
19. Also welcomes the work on social protection and human rights undertaken
by the independent expert and her reports, submitted to the General Assembly at its
sixty-fourth and sixty-fifth sessions; 18
20. Decides to consider the question further at its sixty-seventh session under
the sub-item entitled “Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms”.
71st plenary meeting
21 December 2010
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A/HRC/15/41.
See A/64/279 and A/65/259.
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