Council extends mandates on extreme poverty and international solidarity | Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD)

The Human Rights Council this morning adopted nine texts in which it extended the mandates of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, and the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children.

The Council also decided to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group with the mandate to elaborate an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, and to convene biennial high-level discussions for further exchanges of views on the death penalty.

The Council extended, for a period of three years, the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and requested the Special Rapporteur to promote the effective and comprehensive dissemination and implementation of the guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights.

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