A/80/186 disappointing findings, he does wish to shed light on the programmatic activities carried out by the United Nations that advance the implementation of article 9 of the Declaration. 2. Activities of the principal organs of the United Nations 45. Unsurprisingly, the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council deal with minority issues regularly. The Economic and Social Council dealt with minority issues largely through the work of one of its subsidiary bodies, the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, which was dissolved in 2006. The General Assembly addresses minority issues largely through the Human Rights Council, which was established as a subsidiary organ of the Assembly in 2006, and specifically as a consequence of the work of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues or the work of the Forum on Minority Issues, which was established in 2007. Although the activities of the aforementioned entities in relation to minority issues are naturally important in the context of the United Nations, the Special Rapporteur does not consider them as falling within the scope of the present report, because analysing those activities would become self-referential and, therefore, not very useful. 46. More worthy of analysis are the activities linked to minorities of the Security Council. Since 1948, the Security Council has adopted 78 resolutions, including 2 in 2024, that deal with minority issues. 31 Of those resolutions, three are thematic, 32 while the others concern 15 countries. 33 It is therefore clear that, in the context of the United Nations, minorities are both a human rights issue and a security issue. The Secretary General, in his address to the General Assembly on 21 September 2022 (see para. 29), said that “[the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities] enshrined three core truths: First, that minority rights are human rights. Second, that the protection of minorities is integral to the mission of the United Nations. Third, that the promotion of those rights is vital to advancing political and social stability and preventing conflict within and between countries.” 34 The security dimension of minority issues needs to be acknowledged and acted upon. 3. Activities of United Nations entities, funds, programmes, specialized agencies and related organizations 47. As indicated in the section on methodology, the Special Rapporteur reached out to a long list of relevant United Nations entities. Out of 46 United Nations entities contacted, 33 submitted replies 35 in which they presented information about their dedicated departments, programmes and initiatives that directly or indirectly address __________________ 31 32 33 34 35 12/21 Security Council resolutions 2732 (2024) on Iraq and 2763 (2024) on Afghanistan. Security Council resolutions 2331 (2016) and 2388 (2017) on human trafficking, and resolution 2611 (2021) on counter-terrorism. Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Central African Republic, Croatia, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Myanmar, Pakistan, Somalia, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). See footnote 5 above. Department of Global Communications, Department of Peace Operations, Development Coordination Office, ESCAP, FAO, IFAD, ILO, IOM, ITC, ITU, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Office of Counter-Terrorism, Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, OHCHR, Peacebuilding Support Office, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UN-Habitat, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIDO, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNOPS, United Nations Youth Office, UN-Women, WFP, WHO, WIPO and World Bank. 25-11708