A/HRC/RES/34/14
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 April 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fourth session
27 February–24 March 2017
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 24 March 2017
34/14.
Right to work
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration
and Programme of Action, and recalling the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women and other international human rights instruments relevant to the right to
work, as well as the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome
documents of its review and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1
Reaffirming also Human Rights Council resolutions 28/15 of 26 March 2015 and
31/15 of 23 March 2016 on the right to work,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 63/199 of 19 December 2008, entitled
“International Labour Organization Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization”,
and Economic and Social Council resolutions 2007/2 of 17 July 2007, on the role of the
United Nations system in providing full and productive employment and decent work for
all, and 2008/18 of 24 July 2008, on promoting full employment and decent work for all,
Recalling also the International Labour Organization Declaration on Fundamental
Principles and Rights at Work and the follow-up thereto, adopted by the International
Labour Conference at its eighty-sixth session, on 18 June 1998, the Declaration on Social
Justice for a Fair Globalization, adopted by the Conference at its ninety-seventh session, on
10 June 2008, the Global Jobs Pact, adopted by the Conference at its ninety-eighth session,
on 19 June 2009, the resolution concerning gender equality at the heart of decent work,
adopted by the Conference at its ninety-eighth session, on 17 June 2009, and the resolution
of the International Labour Organization on the follow-up to its Declaration on
Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, adopted by the Conference at its ninety-ninth
session, on 15 June 2010,
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General Assembly resolution 70/1.
GE.17-05887(E)