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the Chairman-Rapporteur, in consultation with the independent experts, to prepare a
further revised version of the basic principles and guidelines. It further requested the
High Commissioner for Human Rights to hold a third consultative meeting and to
transmit to the Commission on Human Rights, at its sixty-first session, the outcome of
the consultative process (see Report of the Commission on Human Rights, E/2004/23).
On 22 July 2004, the Economic and Social Council adopted decision 2004/257, by
which it approved the request by the Commission on Human Rights to hold a third
consultative meeting.
At its sixty-first session, the Commission on Human Rights adopted
resolution 2005/35 of 19 April 2005 by which, welcoming the report of the ChairmanRapporteur of the third consultative meeting (E/CN.4/2005/59), it adopted the Basic
Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of
Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of
International Humanitarian Law (see Report of the Commission on Human Rights,
E/2005/23). Upon recommendation of the Commission, the Economic and Social
Council adopted resolution 2005/30, by which it adopted the Basic Principles and
Guidelines and recommended their adoption to the General Assembly.
At the sixtieth session of the General Assembly, the Third Committee
discussed the text adopted by the Commission on Human Rights at four separate
meetings (see A/C.3/60/SR.22, 29, 37 and 39). On 28 October 2005, a joint draft
resolution (A/C.3/60/L.24) was submitted by Chile on behalf of forty-five delegations
to the Third Committee entitled “Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a
Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human
Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law” which was
adopted by the Committee on the same day. On 16 December 2005, upon
recommendation of the Third Committee (see Report of the Third Committee
A/60/509/Add.1), the General Assembly adopted resolution 60/147 (Basic Principles
and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross
Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International
Humanitarian Law) without a vote.
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