A/HRC/RES/17/15
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 July 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Seventeenth 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∗
17/15. Promotion of the enjoyment of the cultural rights of everyone
and respect for cultural diversity
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and all other relevant human
rights instruments,
Recalling also all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on
Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, including Assembly resolutions 64/81 of
December 2009 and 64/174 of 18 December 2009, Council resolution 10/23 of 26 March
2009, by which it established, for a period of three years, a special procedure entitled
“independent expert in the field of cultural rights”, and Council resolution 14/9 of 18 June
2010,
Taking note of the declarations within the United Nations system on cultural
diversity and international cultural cooperation, in particular the Declaration of the
Principles of International Cultural Cooperation and the Universal Declaration on Cultural
Diversity, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization on 4 November 1966 and 2 November 2001 respectively,
Taking note of general comment No. 21 on the right of everyone to take part in
cultural life, adopted by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on 13
November 2009,
∗
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its seventeenth session (A/HRC/17/2), chap. I.
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