Geneva Institute for Human Rights

The Human Rights Council concluded its Special Session on “The Support of the Human Rights Council to the Recovery Process in Haiti after the Earthquake of January 12, 2010: a Human Rights Approach", adopting a resolution in which it called upon the international community to continue to ensure adequate and coordinated support to the Government and the people of Haiti, keeping in mind the importance of integrating a human rights approach.
In the resolution, the Council called upon the international community to continue to ensure adequate and coordinated support to the Government and the people of Haiti in their efforts to overcome the challenges arising from the earthquake, keeping in mind the importance of integrating a human rights approach; and underscored the importance of renewed and sustainable commitment to address the existing and additional challenges to promote and protect all human rights in Haiti. The Council decided to act favorably, in view of the exceptional circumstances that confront it, upon
the request of Haiti to postpone relevant deadlines related to its Universal Periodic Review within the Human Rights Council to a date no later than December 2011; and invited the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights to identify areas for cooperation and technical assistance with Haiti, on the basis of the expertise and the presence of the United Nations system on the ground with a view to present suggestions in this regard to the Human Rights Council in its fourteenth regular session.