Human Rights Council Resolutions

Human Rights Council Resolutions in 2011

United States views on international law (based on the document “Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law”): On March 25, 2011, the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on the right to development. U.N. Doc. A/HRC/RES/16/117. The United States abstained from the vote on the resolution, as explained in the explanation of vote delivered by U.S. delegate Mark J. Cassayre. That March 25 explanation of vote is available at https://geneva.usmission.gov/2011/03/25/eov-right-to-development/ and is not excerpted herein; it was similar in substance to the September 30, 2011 explanation of vote that is excerpted below.

On September 30, the United States abstained from the vote on United Nations Human Rights Council resolution 18/26 on the Right to Development. Ambassador Donahoe delivered the U.S. explanation of vote, excerpted below and available in full at (internet link) state.gov/s/l/c8183.htm.

Developments

We have stated very clearly that we are not prepared to join consensus on the possibility of negotiating a binding international agreement based on concepts that the right to development currently envisages. . . . We are disappointed that the suggestions to add previously-accepted language from the Vienna Declaration, reaffirming [that] the human person is the central subject of development, were not given due consideration.

Nevertheless, we will engage constructively with the Open-Ended Working Group on the Right to Development, during its upcoming session on November 14-18. . . .

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The United States delegation was pleased to be able to participate in the panel discussion on “the way forward in the realization of the right to development.” And we are committed to finding ways we can work together constructively and make the right to development a uniting, rather than divisive, issue on the international human rights agenda. …[W]e have decided we must call a vote and abstain on this resolution because it does not take into account one of the U.S. core concerns.

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…[W]e are disappointed that the suggestions to add previously-accepted language from the Vienna Declaration, reaffirming [that] the human person is the central subject of development, were not given due consideration.

Nevertheless, we will engage constructively with the Open-Ended Working Group on the Right to Development, during its upcoming session on November 14-18. …

June Human Rights Council Resolution

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Discrimination

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