A/HRC/RES/18/14
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 October 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Eighteenth 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*
18/14
Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of
human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 32/127 of 16 December 1977 and
subsequent Assembly resolutions on regional arrangements for the promotion and
protection of human rights, the latest being resolution 63/170 of 18 December 2008,
Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/51 of 9 March 1993
and subsequent Commission resolutions in this regard, and Human Rights Council
resolutions 6/20 of 28 September 2007 and 12/15 of 1 October 2009,
Bearing in mind paragraph 5 (h) of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15
March 2006, in which the Assembly decided that the Human Rights Council should work
in close cooperation with regional organizations,
Bearing in mind also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by
the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, which reiterates, inter alia, the
need to consider the possibility of establishing regional and subregional arrangements for
the promotion and protection of human rights where they do not already exist,
Reaffirming the fact that regional arrangements play an important role in promoting
and protecting human rights and should reinforce universal human rights standards, as
contained in international human rights instruments,
1.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights on the workshop on enhancing cooperation between
*
GE.11-16682
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its eighteenth session (A/HRC/18/2), chap. I.