30 September 2011
Extends Mandate of Expert on Haiti, Decides to Hold Seminar on Climate Change and Panel on Promoting Human Rights through Sport and the Olympics
The Human Rights Council this morning adopted three resolutions on migrants, climate change and on promoting human rights through sport and in particular the Olympic and Paralympic Games. It also adopted a Presidential Statement on technical assistance for Haiti.
Laura Dupuy Lasserre, President of the Human Rights Council, said that under the Presidential Statement on Technical Assistance and Reinforcement of Capacities for Haiti, the Council had decided, upon request of the authorities of Haiti, to technically extend the mandate of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti until the nineteenth session of the Council.