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Working Groups Assumed by the Human Rights Council

NB: For details on the working groups (e.g. mandate, composition, dates of meetings, documents, etc.) please click on the respective working group.

Standard setting

- Open-ended working group to consider options regarding the elaboration of an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

- Working Group on a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearances
- Working group on a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples
Others: Open-ended
- Working group on the right to development
- Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
Others: Special procedures
- Working Group  on Arbitrary Detention 
- Working Group  on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
- Working Group on the use of mercenaries
- Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
- Working Group on Situations (Confidential 1503 Procedure)

 


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