A/HRC/RES/28/2
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 April 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-eighth session
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
28/2. Enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human
rights
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming its commitment to promoting international cooperation, as set forth in
the Charter of the United Nations, in particular Article 1, paragraph 3, as well as relevant
provisions of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted at the World
Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, for enhancing genuine cooperation among
Member States in the field of human rights,
Recalling the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations Millennium
Declaration on 8 September 2000 and the renewed commitments to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals by their target date of 2015, as set out in the outcome document
adopted at the high-level plenary meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the Assembly on the
Millennium Development Goals,
Recalling also all decisions and resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights,
the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly on the enhancement of international
cooperation in the field of human rights, the latest of which being Council resolution 25/3
of 27 March 2014 and Assembly resolution 69/179 of 18 December 2014,
Recalling further the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban, South Africa from 31 August to 8
September 2001, and the Durban Review Conference, held in Geneva from 20 to 24 April
2009, the political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly to
commemorate the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action and their role in the enhancement of international cooperation in the
field of human rights,
Recognizing that the enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human
rights is essential for the full achievement of the purposes of the United Nations, including
the effective promotion and protection of all human rights,
GE.15-06884 (E)