A/HRC/RES/37/42
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 April 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-seventh session
26 February–23 March 2018
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 23 March 2018
37/42.
Contribution to the implementation of the joint commitment to
effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with
regard to human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recalling 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 other relevant international human rights instruments,
Reaffirming also the universality, interdependence, indivisibility and interrelatedness
of human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
consequently elaborated in other human rights instruments,
Recalling in particular that the Human Rights Council has the mandate to, inter alia,
promote universal respect for the protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms
for all, without discrimination of any kind and in a fair and equal manner, to serve as a
forum for dialogue on thematic issues on all human rights, and to promote the effective
coordination and mainstreaming of human rights within the United Nations system,
Underscoring that the three main international drug control conventions of 1961,
1971 and 1988 and other relevant international instruments constitute the cornerstone of the
international drug control system, and reaffirming the targets and goals of the Political
Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and
Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem of 2009, and also the Joint
Ministerial Statement of the 2014 high-level review of the implementation by Member
States of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 28/28 of 27 March 2015 entitled
“Contribution of the Human Rights Council to the special session of the General Assembly
on the world drug problem of 2016”,
Noting the contributions of international human rights bodies and mechanisms,
including international human rights treaty bodies, the Human Rights Council and its
subsidiary bodies, such as the special procedures and the universal periodic review, in
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