A/RES/73/162
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 74 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/589/Add.1)]
73/162.
Human rights treaty body system
The General Assembly,
Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1 the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1 the Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2 the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 3 the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of
Their Families, 4 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimi nation
against Women, 5 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 7 the
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment 8 and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 9
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 1985/17 of 28 May 1985,
Recalling further its resolution 68/268 of 9 April 2014 on strengthening and
enhancing the effective functioning of the human rights treaty body system,
Recalling its resolution 71/185 of 19 December 2016 on the human rights treaty
body system,
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See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 2716, No. 48088.
Ibid., vol. 2220, No. 39481.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 1465, No. 24841.
Ibid., vol. 2375, No. 24841.
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