Effective implementation of international instruments on human rights, including reporting obligations under international instruments on human rights : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Emphasizes the need to ensure financing and adequate staff and information resources for the operations of the human rights treaty bodies; encourages ongoing efforts to identify measures for more effective implementation of the UN human rights instruments; welcomes the continuing efforts by the human rights treaty bodies and the Secretary-General aimed at streamlining, rationalizing, rendering more transparent and otherwise improving reporting procedures; urges States parties to contribute, individually and through meetings of States parties, to identifying practical proposals and ideas for improving the functioning of the human rights treaty bodies; underlines the importance of providing technical assistance to a State, upon its request, in the process of ratifying human rights instruments and in the preparation of its initial and subsequent reports; reiterates its concern about the persistent backlog of reports on the implementation by States parties of certain UN instruments on human rights and about delays in the consideration of reports of the human rights treaty bodies; also reiterates its concern about the large number of overdue reports, and again urges States parties to make every effort to meet their reporting obligations; urges all States parties whose reports have been examined by human rights treaty bodies to provide adequate follow-up to the observations and final comments of the treaty bodies on their reports and to translate, publish and make widely available in its territory the full text of the concluding observations; requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its 57th session on measures taken to implement the present resolution; decides to continue to give priority consideration at its 57th session to the conclusions and recommendations of the periodic meetings of the persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies.

Adopted without vote, 81st plenary meeting

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