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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/150
10 March 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 110 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/53/625/Add.2)]
53/150. Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal
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Declaration of Human Rights,1 the International Covenants on Human Rights
and the other relevant
international human rights instruments,
Recalling its resolution 33/173 of 20 December 1978 concerning disappeared persons and its
resolutions 46/125 of 17 December 1991, 49/193 of 23 December 1994 and 51/94 of 12 December 1996 on
the question of enforced or involuntary disappearances,
Recalling also its resolution 47/133 of 18 December 1992 proclaiming the Declaration on the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance as a body of principles for all States,
Expressing concern that, according to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
of the Commission on Human Rights, the practice of a number of States can run counter to the Declaration,
Deeply concerned, in particular, by the intensification of enforced disappearances in various regions of
the world and by the growing number of reports concerning the harassment, ill-treatment and intimidation of
witnesses of disappearances or relatives of persons who have disappeared,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
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Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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