A/RES/61/167
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 February 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 67 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2006
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/443/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
61/167. Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection
of human rights
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 32/127 of 16 December 1977 and its subsequent
resolutions concerning regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of
human rights,
Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/51 of 9 March
1993 1 and its subsequent resolutions in this regard,
Bearing in mind the relevant resolutions of the Commission concerning
advisory services and technical cooperation in the field of human rights, including
its most recent on that subject, resolution 2004/81 of 21 April 2004, 2
Bearing in mind also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 3 which
reiterates, inter alia, the need to consider the possibility of establishing regional and
subregional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights where
they do not already exist,
Recalling that the World Conference recommended that more resources should
be made available for the strengthening of regional arrangements for the promotion
and protection of human rights under the programme of technical cooperation in the
field of human rights of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights,
Reaffirming that regional arrangements play an important role in promoting
and protecting human rights and should reinforce universal human rights standards,
as contained in international human rights instruments,
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda
(E/1993/23 and Corr.2, 4 and 5), chap. II, sect. A.
2
Ibid., 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), chap. II, sect. A.
3
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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