A/RES/79/169
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 December 2024
Seventy-ninth session
Agenda item 71 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
questions, including alternative approaches for improving
the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2024
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/79/458/Add.2, para. 99)]
79/169.
Promotion of peace as a vital requirement for the full enjoyment of
all human rights by all
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 65/222 of 21 December 2010, 67/173 of 20 December
2012, 69/176 of 18 December 2014, 73/170 of 17 December 2018, 75/177 of
16 December 2020 and 77/216 of 15 December 2022 and Human Rights Council
resolutions 20/15 of 5 July 2012, 1 23/16 of 13 June 2013, 2 27/17 of 25 September
2014, 3 30/12 of 1 October 2015, 4 35/4 of 22 June 2017 5 and 41/4 of 11 July 2019, 6
entitled “Promotion of the right to peace”,
Recalling also its resolution 39/11 of 12 November 1984, entitled “Declaration
on the Right of Peoples to Peace”, and the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 7
Determined to foster strict respect for the purposes and principles enshrined in
the Charter of the United Nations,
Bearing in mind that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve
international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social,
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and
corrigendum (A/67/53 and A/67/53/Corr.1), chap. IV, sect. A.
2
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53), chap. V, sect. A.
3
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1,
A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A.
4
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1), chap. III.
5
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/72/53), chap. V, sect. A.
6
Ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/74/53), chap. V, sect. A.
7
Resolution 55/2.
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