Human Rights Council

Twent y- f if th session

Agenda item 1

Organizational and procedural matters

Decision adopted by the Human Rights Council

25/116.Postponement of the renewal of the mandate of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

At its 53rd meeting, on 27 March 2014, the Human Rights Council, recalling the annex to itsresolution 16/21 of 25 March 2011 and to General Assembly resolution 65/281 of 17 June 2011, decided, in an effort to synchronize schedules for resolutions, mandates and the presentation of reports by the special procedures of the Council, to postpone the renewal of the mandate of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to its twenty-seventh session and, for that reason, to extend, on an exceptional basis, the mandate of the Working Group until that session.

[Adopted without a vote.]