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● Item 66: Right of peoples to self-determination.
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At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly requested the Commission on Human Rights to continue to give special attention to the violation of human rights, especially the right to self-determination, resulting from foreign military intervention, aggression or occupation; and requested the Secretary-General to report on the question to the Assembly at its sixty-first session (resolution 60/145).
The Commission on Human Rights, at its sixty-first session, decided to end the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the use of mercenaries and to establish a working group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, made up of five independent experts, one from each regional group, for a period of three years; and requested the working group to continue the work already done by the previous Special Rapporteurs on the strengthening of the international legal framework for the prevention and sanction of the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries, and to report annually on the progress made in the fulfilment of its mandate to the Commission and to the General Assembly (Economic and Social Council decision 2005/255 and Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/2).
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