A/RES/67/177
United Nations
Distr.: General
20 March 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 69 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/457/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
67/177. Missing persons
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes, principles and provisions of the Charter of the
United Nations,
Guided also by the principles and norms of international humanitarian law, in
particular the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 1 and the Additional Protocols
thereto of 1977, 2 as well as international standards of human rights, in particular the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 3 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 4 the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights,4 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, 5 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 6 and the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on
25 June 1993, 7
Welcoming the entry into force on 23 December 2010 of the International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 8
Recalling all previous relevant resolutions on missing persons adopted by the
General Assembly, as well as the resolutions and decisions adopted by the
Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council,
Noting with deep concern that armed conflicts are continuing in various parts
of the world, often resulting in serious violations of international humanitarian law
and international human rights law,
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
3
Resolution 217 A (III).
4
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
5
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
6
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
7
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
8
Resolution 61/177, annex.
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