A/HRC/RES/38/3
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 July 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-eighth session
18 June–6 July 2018
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on
5 July 2018
38/3.
Enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming its commitment to promoting international cooperation, as set forth in
the Charter of the United Nations, in particular Article 1, paragraph 3, and relevant
provisions of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted at the World
Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, for enhancing genuine cooperation among
Member States in the field of human rights,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the
Assembly adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and
transformative Sustainable Development Goals,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986, entitled
“Declaration on the Right to Development”, in which the Assembly stated that States have
the duty to cooperate with each other in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to
development,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993,
entitled “High Commissioner for the promotion and protection of all human rights”, in
which the Assembly recalled that one of the purposes of the United Nations enshrined in
the Charter is to achieve international cooperation in the promotion and encouragement of
respect for human rights,
Reaffirming General Assembly resolution 33/134 of 19 December 1978, entitled
“United Nations Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries”, in
which the Assembly endorsed the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and
Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries,
Recalling all decisions and resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights, the
Human Rights Council and the General Assembly on the enhancement of international
cooperation in the field of human rights, the latest of which being Council resolution 35/8
of 22 June 2017 and Assembly resolution 72/171 of 19 December 2017,
Taking note with appreciation of the final document and declaration adopted at the
Seventeenth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held
on Margarita Island, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, from 13 to 18 September 2016, in
which the States members of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries reiterated, inter alia,
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