§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether, in order to ascertain the effect of the United Nations General Assembly's ruling that no document can be published until it is translated into all the working languages of the United Nations, they will ask the High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide a list of the report of the Special Rapporteurs and Working Groups considered at the 55th Session of the Human Rights Commission, giving in each case the date the report was submitted in its original language, the date of the publication, and the date on which the report was considered by the Commission; and whether they will then place the list in the Library of the House.
§ Baroness Symons of Vernham DeanWe fully share concerns that reports for the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) are not always available in good time. To that end the UK was active in supporting a resolution at this year's CHR to improve the availability of reports in the future. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is unable to provide such a list of documents.