A/RES/75/185
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/478/Add.2, para. 89)]
75/185.
Human rights in the administration of justice
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 and
the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the
Optional Protocols thereto, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, 3 the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Optional Protocol thereto, 4 the
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance, 5 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, 6 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 7 and the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 8 as well as all other relevant international treaties,
Calling attention to the numerous international standards in the field of the
administration of justice,
Recalling all the resolutions of the General Assembly, the Human Rights
Council, the Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council that
are relevant to the subject of human rights in the administration of justice, including
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex; and United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1642, No. 14668.
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 1465 and 2375, No. 24841.
Ibid., vol. 2716, No. 48088.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
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