A/HRC/RES/45/9
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 October 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-fifth session
14 September–7 October 2020
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 6 October 2020
45/9.
The role of good governance in the promotion and protection of human
rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Guided also by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of
achievement of all peoples and all nations, and also the Vienna Declaration and Programme
of Action, which affirmed that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated,
Recalling all relevant international human rights treaties, including the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 7/11 of 27 March 2008, 19/20 of 23
March 2012, 25/8 of 27 March 2014, 31/14 of 23 March 2016 and 37/6 of 22 March 2018,
all other resolutions relevant to the role of good governance in the promotion of human rights,
the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development,
Welcoming the resolve of States parties to the United Nations Convention against
Corruption, and noting with interest the provisions of the Convention that have led to the
development of a mechanism among States parties to review their progress in combating
corruption,
Noting with satisfaction the twentieth anniversary of the Warsaw Declaration
expressing 19 core democratic principles and practices and recognizing the universality of
democratic values, thereby founding the Community of Democracies to support the integrity
of democratic processes in societies and to enhance the effectiveness of democratic
governance,
GE.20-13211(E)