HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADOPTS 16 TEXTS ON SRI LANKA, SYRIA, UNILATERAL COERCIVE MEASURES AND THE ...

(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) 1 October 2015 The Human Rights Council today adopted 16 texts on promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka, the grave and deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, the death penalty, and on human rights and unilateral coercive measures, among others. Other texts extended the term of all Working Group mandate holders for two regular sessions of the Human Rights Council; approved two annual sessions for the Working Group with the mandate to negotiate, finalize and submit to the Human Rights Council a draft United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people...