A/RES/78/173
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 24
Social development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/472, para. 57)]
78/173.
Addressing the challenges of persons living with a rare disease and
their families
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2 the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women, 3 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 4
and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 5
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
wide, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable
Development Goals and targets, and its commitment to working tirelessly for the full
implementation of the Agenda by 2030, with the endeavour to reach the furthest
behind first, including persons living with a rare disease,
Recalling its resolution 76/132 of 16 December 2021,
Recalling also its resolutions 76/154 of 16 December 2021 and 77/189 of
15 December 2022 and previous relevant resolutions, and relevant resolutions of the
Human Rights Council and of the Economic and Social Council and its fun ctional
commissions,
Recognizing the need to promote and protect the human rights of all persons,
including the estimated 300 million persons living with a rare disease worldwide,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
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