A/RES/72/181
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.2)]
72/181.
National institutions for the promotion and protection
of human rights
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on national institutions for the promotion and
protection of human rights, the most recent of which was resolution 70/163 of
17 December 2015, and those of the Commission on Human Rights and the Human
Rights Council concerning national institutions and their role in the promotion and
protection of human rights, the most recent of which was Council resolution 33/15 of
29 September 2016, 1
Welcoming the rapidly growing interest throughout the world in the creation and
strengthening of independent, pluralistic national institutions for the promotion and
protection of human rights,
Recalling the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the
promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles), 2 welcoming the
forthcoming twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Principles, and noting
with appreciation the establishment of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights
Institutions,
Recalling also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the
World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 3 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
preventing and remedying human rights violations, in disseminating information on
human rights and in education in human rights,
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53A and
corrigendum (A/71/53/Add.1 and A/71/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. II.
Resolution 48/134, annex.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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