A/HRC/RES/55/17
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 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 4 April 2024
55/17.
Human rights and a culture of peace
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights and all other relevant international human rights conventions and instruments,
Recalling also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the United Nations
Millennium Declaration, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action, the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and
other relevant United Nations declarations,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 53/243 of 6 October 1999 on the
Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, other relevant Assembly
resolutions, in particular resolutions 77/32 of 6 December 2022 on the International Year of
Dialogue as a Guarantee of Peace, 2023, and 77/296 of 14 June 2023 on follow-up to the
Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, and all other relevant United
Nations resolutions,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 71/189 of 19 December 2016 on the
Declaration on the Right to Peace, and all other previous resolutions on the right to peace
adopted by the Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council,
Recalling also the Declaration on the Right to Development, in particular articles 5
and 7 thereof, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986,
Recalling further the various General Assembly High-level Forums on the Culture of
Peace, convened by Presidents of the Assembly, as well as the work of the Assembly in
implementing the Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 66/137 of 19 December 2011 on the United
Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training, and Assembly resolution
72/130 of 8 December 2017, in which the Assembly declared 16 May as the International
Day of Living Together in Peace,
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