A/HRC/RES/41/3
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 July 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-first session
24 June–12 July 2019
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 July 2019
41/3.
Enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming its commitment to promoting international cooperation, as set forth in the
Charter of the United Nations, in particular Article 1, paragraph 3 thereof, and relevant
provisions of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted at the World
Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, for enhancing genuine cooperation among
Member States in the field of human rights,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the
Assembly adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and
transformative Sustainable Development Goals,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted on 8 September
2000, General Assembly resolution 73/168 of 17 December 2018, Human Rights Council
resolution 38/3 of 5 July 2018 and the resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights on
the enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986, entitled
“Declaration on the Right to Development”, in which the Assembly stated that States have
the duty to cooperate with each other in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to
development,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, entitled “High
Commissioner for the promotion and protection of all human rights”, in which the Assembly
recalled that one of the purposes of the United Nations enshrined in the Charter is to achieve
international cooperation in the promotion and encouragement of respect for human rights,
Reaffirming General Assembly resolution 33/134 of 19 December 1978, entitled
“United Nations Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries”, in
which the Assembly endorsed the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and
Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries,
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