A/HRC/RES/55/6
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 April 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fifth session
26 February–5 April 2024
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 3 April 2024
55/6.
Effects of foreign debt and other related international financial
obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights,
particularly economic, social and cultural rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and other relevant international
human rights instruments,
Reaffirming all resolutions and decisions adopted by the Commission on Human
Rights and the Human Rights Council on the effects of structural adjustment and economic
reform policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly
economic, social and cultural rights, the most recent being Council resolution 46/8 of 23
March 2021,
Stressing that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve international
cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or
humanitarian character,
Emphasizing that the World Conference on Human Rights agreed to call upon the
international community to make all efforts to help to alleviate the external debt burden of
developing countries in order to supplement the efforts of the Governments of such countries
to attain the full realization of the economic, social and cultural rights of their people,
Stressing the primacy of the means of implementation for the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, and in this regard underlining the fundamental principles of
international cooperation, which are pivotal for the practical achievement of the Sustainable
Development Goals,
Stressing also the determination expressed in the 2030 Agenda to assist developing
countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at
fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and to address the
external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress,
Recognizing the commitments made in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third
International Conference on Financing for Development, and noting that, despite
international debt relief efforts, many countries remain vulnerable to debt crisis and some are
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