A/RES/64/152
United Nations
Distr.: General
26 March 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 69 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/439/Add.1and Corr.1)]
64/152. International Covenants on Human Rights
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 62/147 of 18 December 2007 and Commission on
Human Rights resolution 2004/69 of 21 April 2004, 1
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Mindful that the International Covenants on Human Rights 2 constitute the first
all-embracing and legally binding international treaties in the field of human rights
and, together with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 3 form the core of the
International Bill of Human Rights,
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Recalling the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights2
and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,2 and reaffirming that
all human rights and fundamental freedoms are universal, indivisible,
interdependent and interrelated, that they should be treated in a fair and equal
manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis, and that the promotion
and protection of one category of rights should never exempt or excuse States from
the promotion and protection of the other rights,
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Recalling also the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 4 by the General Assembly on the
occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
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Recognizing the important role of the Human Rights Committee and the
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in examining the progress
made by States parties in fulfilling the obligations undertaken in the International
Covenants on Human Rights and the Optional Protocols thereto and in providing
recommendations to States parties on their implementation,
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
2
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
Resolution 217 A (III).
4
Resolution 63/117, annex.
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