A/HRC/RES/33/8
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 October 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-third session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 29 September 2016
33/8.
Local government and human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and relevant international
human rights instruments, in particular the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 24/2 of 26 September 2013 and
27/4 of 25 September 2014 on the role of local government in the promotion and protection
of human rights,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015 on 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 and targets, and its commitments to working tirelessly for
full implementation of the Agenda by 2030 at all levels,
Underscoring the significant contribution that local government can make to the
implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and their targets,
Bearing in mind that the Sustainable Development Goals and their targets are aimed
at realizing the human rights of all and at achieving gender equality and the empowerment
of all women and girls, and also that they are integrated and indivisible, and balance the
three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, the social and the
environmental,
Taking note with appreciation of the research-based report of the Human Rights
Council Advisory Committee on the role of local government in the promotion and
protection of human rights,1
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