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A new Resolution presented by Romania and adopted by the
Commission on Human Rights - Geneva, April 23, 2003
On 23 April 2003, the Commission on Human Rights adopted the Resolution
2003/36, based on the draft presented by Romania and entitled
"Interdependence between democracy and human rights". The delegation
of Peru associated itself with Romania as main co-sponsor. Eventually,
sixty-seven Member States signed the resolution as co-sponsors.
The new resolution, in its operative part, is action oriented and provides
for steps forward in the efforts of this Commission aimed at promoting and
upholding democracy. A special emphasis will be suggested on enhanced
coherence in the United Nations system and on a more active profile of
the Office of the High Commissioner in promoting democracy and helping
democratization processes to advance. Similar recommendations are
addressed to the special procedures. A more active and focused role
will be invited from regional, subregional and other organizations and
arrangements, as the best way to make universal values and principles of
democracy genuinely accepted and implemented in specific regional,
cultural and societal contexts. Other practical steps are also envisaged,
among which the organization of a second expert seminar on "democracy and
the rule of law".
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