United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/57/234
Distr.: General
28 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 109 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/556/Add.3)]
57/234. Question of human rights in Afghanistan
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights,1 the International Covenants on Human Rights2 and accepted humanitarian rules,
as set out in the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 19493 and the Additional Protocols
thereto, of 1977,4
Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and protect
human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil the obligations they have freely
undertaken under the various international instruments,
Recalling that Afghanistan is a party to the Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,5 the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights,2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,2 the
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment,6 the Convention on the Rights of the Child,7 the Geneva Convention
relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War,8 as well as the Convention
concerning Equal Remuneration (Convention No. 100) and the Convention concerning
the Abolition of Forced Labour (Convention No. 105) of the International Labour
Organization, and recalling that it has signed the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women,9
Welcoming the accession of Afghanistan to the Optional Protocols to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the involvement of children in armed
conflict,10 and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography,11 and to
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
4
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
5
Resolution 260 A (III).
6
Resolution 39/46, annex.
7
Resolution 44/25, annex.
8
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
9
Resolution 34/180, annex.
10
Resolution 54/263, annex I.
11
Ibid., annex II.
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