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 1 A/HRC/30/49. GE.16-17298(E) 

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