A/HRC/RES/57/6
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 October 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-seventh session
9 September–11 October 2024
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 9 October 2024
57/6.
Countering cyberbullying
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women and all other relevant human rights treaties and instruments,
Reaffirming also that the general principles of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, including the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation, survival and
development, provide the framework for all actions concerning children,
Recalling the general principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities, including non-discrimination, full and effective participation and inclusion in
society, respect for difference and acceptance of persons with disabilities as part of human
diversity and humanity, individual autonomy and independence of persons with disabilities,
gender equality and respect for the evolving capacities of children with disabilities,
Recalling also the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly on protecting
children from bullying, as well as other relevant resolutions adopted by the Assembly and
the Human Rights Council,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolution 51/10 of 6 October 2022, and
welcoming the holding of the panel discussion on cyberbullying against children at the fiftyfourth session of the Council,
Welcoming the relevant work of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities, in particular on awareness-raising and respect for diversity, and taking note of
the Committee’s general comment No. 4 (2016) on the right to inclusive education, in which
it stressed the importance of implementing awareness-raising initiatives to address stigma
and discrimination, in particular bullying in educational settings,
Recalling the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training,
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Declaration of
Principles on Tolerance, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
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