A/RES/79/172
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 December 2024
Seventy-ninth session
Agenda item 71 (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 17 December 2024
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/79/458/Add.2, para. 99)]
79/172.
Human rights in the administration of justice
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1
and the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the
Optional Protocols thereto, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, 3 the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Optional Protocol thereto, 4 the
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance, 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 Optional
Protocols thereto, 8 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 9 as
well as all other relevant international treaties,
Calling attention to the numerous international standards in the field of the
administration of justice,
Recalling all the resolutions of the General Assembly, the Human Rights
Council, the Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council that
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex; and United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1642, No. 14668.
3
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 1465 and 2375, No. 24841.
5
Ibid., vol. 2716, No. 48088.
6
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
7
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
8
Ibid., vols. 2171, 2173 and 2983, No. 27531.
9
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
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