A/HRC/RES/52/15
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 April 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-second session
27 February–4 April 2023
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
on 3 April 2023
52/15.
Cooperation with regional human rights organizations
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 32/127 of 16 December 1977 and subsequent
Assembly resolutions concerning regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of
human rights, the latest being resolution 63/170 of 18 December 2008,
Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/51 of 9 March 1993
and subsequent Commission resolutions in this regard, and Human Rights Council
resolutions 6/20 of 28 September 2007, 12/15 of 1 October 2009, 18/14 of 29 September
2011, 24/19 of 27 September 2013, 30/3 of 1 October 2015, 34/17 of 24 March 2017 and
43/17 of 22 June 2020,
Bearing in mind paragraph 5 (h) of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March
2006, in which the Assembly decided that the Council should work in close cooperation with
regional organizations,
Bearing in mind also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by
the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, which reiterates, inter alia, the
importance of cooperation between regional arrangements and the United Nations human
rights activities, and the need to consider the possibility of establishing regional and
subregional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights where they do
not already exist,
Reaffirming the fact that regional organizations, in all their variety and at all their
levels of formalization, can play an important role in promoting and protecting human rights
and should reinforce universal human rights, as contained in international human rights
instruments,
Welcoming the contribution that regional organizations working in the field of human
rights make to the advancement of human rights globally, through dialogue, cooperation and
the adoption of relevant human rights instruments, including those open for joining by parties
from other regions,
Taking note with appreciation of the initiative of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights to commemorate throughout 2023 the seventy-fifth
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the thirtieth anniversary of
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