A/HRC/RES/57/30 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 14 October 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-seventh session 9 September–11 October 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 11 October 2024 57/30. Youth and human rights The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and relevant international human rights instruments, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Recalling also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, in which it is stated that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated, interdependent and mutually reinforcing and that all human rights must be treated in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis, Recalling further Human Rights Council resolutions 32/1 of 30 June 2016, 35/14 of 22 June 2017, 41/13 of 11 July 2019 and 51/17 of 6 October 2022 on youth and human rights, and resolution 48/12 of 8 October 2021 on the human rights implications of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on young people, Recalling all previous relevant resolutions, including the most recent, namely, General Assembly resolution 78/179 of 19 December 2023, on policies and programmes involving youth, Assembly resolution 50/81 of 14 December 1995, by which the Assembly adopted the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, and its subsequent resolution 62/126 of 18 December 2007, Acknowledging that the World Programme of Action for Youth provided a policy framework and practical guidelines for national action and international support to improve the situation of young people, Recalling the holding of the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth, in Lisbon, in August 1998, and the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth 2019 and Youth Forum Lisboa+21, also in Lisbon, in June 2019, and recalling also their Declarations on Youth Policies and Programmes, especially with regard to empowering youth and their representatives and the commitment to protect, respect and fulfil the human GE.24-18759 (E)