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Human Rights Council president warns budget shortfalls are hindering implementation of resolutions
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Ambassador Joerg Lauber told reporters the council adopted 35 resolutions at its sixtieth session but budgetary constraints and state disengagement are limiting the council's ability to follow through, including delaying a commission of inquiry for eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo because funding is not yet available.
Ambassador Joerg Lauber, president of the United Nations Human Rights Council, told reporters in New York that budget constraints are limiting the council’s ability to implement decisions reached at its sixtieth session.
Lauber said the council adopted 35 resolutions during the session, including a new investigative mechanism on Afghanistan and a merger of the mandates on slavery and human trafficking, but that financial shortfalls have forced cuts to meeting time and delayed on-the-ground follow-up. “The other consequence we saw and we see increasingly is decisions taken by the council not being implemented because the…
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