A/HRC/RES/23/3
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 June 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-third 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∗
23/3.
Enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming its commitment to promoting international cooperation, as set forth in
the Charter of the United Nations, in particular Article 1, paragraph 3, as well as relevant
provisions of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted at the World
Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, for enhancing genuine cooperation among
Member States in the field of human rights,
Recalling the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations Millennium
Declaration on 8 September 2000, and the renewed commitments to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals by their target date of 2015, as set out in the outcome
document adopted at the High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the
General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals,
Recalling also all decisions and resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights,
the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly on the enhancement of international
cooperation in the field of human rights, the latest of which being Council decision 22/116
of 21 March 2013, Assembly resolution 67/169 of 20 December 2012 and Council
resolution 19/33 of 23 March 2012,
Recalling further the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 8
September 2001, and the Durban Review Conference, held in Geneva, from 20 to 24 April
2009, and their role in the enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human
rights,
∗
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report
of the Council on its twenty-third session (A/HRC/23/2), chap. I.
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