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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/123
14 February 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 114 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/632/Add.2)]
48/123.
Alternative approaches and ways and means within the
United Nations system for improving the effective
enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms
The General Assembly,
Recalling that in the Charter of the United Nations the peoples of the
United Nations declared their determination to reaffirm faith in fundamental
human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal
rights of men and women and of nations large and small and to employ
international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social
advancement of all peoples,
Recalling also that one of the purposes of the United Nations, as set
forth in the Charter, is to achieve international cooperation in solving
international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian
character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for
fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or
religion,
Emphasizing the significance and validity of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights 1/ and of the International Covenants on Human Rights 2/ in
promoting respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
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1/
Resolution 217 A (III).
2/
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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