A/RES/76/170
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 74 (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 2021
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/76/462/Add.2, para. 114)]
76/170.
National human rights institutions
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its relevant resolutions, as well as those of the Human Rights
Council and the Commission on Human Rights on national institutions for the
promotion and protection of human rights, including most recently Council resolution
45/22 of 6 October 2020 1 and General Assembly resolution 74/156 of 18 December
2019, as well as the previous resolutions on the role of the Ombudsman, mediator
institutions and other national human rights institutions 2 in the promotion and
protection of human rights,
Recalling also the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the
promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles), 3 and noting with
appreciation the establishment of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights
Institutions,
Recalling further the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by
the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 4 which reaffirmed the
important and constructive role played by national human rights institutions, in
particular in their advisory capacity to the competent authorities and their role in
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/75/53/Add.1), chap. III.
“National human rights institutions” and “national institutions for the promotion and protection
of human rights” are used synonymously.
Resolution 48/134, annex.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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