United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/56/165
Distr.: General
26 February 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 119 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/56/583/Add.2)]
56/165. Globalization and its impact on the full enjoyment of all
human rights
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
and expressing in particular the need to achieve international cooperation in
promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for
all without distinction,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 as well as the Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human
Rights on 25 June 1993, 2
Recalling also the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 3 and
the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 3
Recalling further the Declaration on the Right to Development adopted by the
General Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986,
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration 4 and the outcome
documents of the twenty-third 5 and twenty-fourth 6 special sessions of the General
Assembly, held, respectively, in New York from 5 to 10 June 2000 and Geneva from
26 June to 1 July 2000,
Recalling also its resolution 55/102 of 4 December 2000,
Recognizing that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent
and interrelated and that the international community must treat human rights
globally in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same
emphasis,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
3
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
See resolution 55/2.
5
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
6
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
2
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