A/RES/75/184
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/478/Add.2, para. 89)]
75/184.
Missing persons
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes, principles and provisions of the Charter of the United
Nations,
Guided also by the principles and norms of international humanitarian law, in
particular the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 1 and the Additional Protocols
thereto of 1977, 2 as well as international standards of human rights, in particular the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 3 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 4 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 5
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 6
the Convention on the Rights of the Child 7 and the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June
1993, 8
Recalling the accession by 63 States to the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 9 and calling upon States that
have not yet done so to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to it as a matter of
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2716, No. 48088.
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