A/RES/68/163
United Nations
Distr.: General
21 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 69 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/456/Add.2)]
68/163. The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 and recalling relevant
international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights 2 and the International Convention for the Protection of All
Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 3 as well as the Geneva Conventions of
12 August 1949 4 and the Additional Protocols thereto, 5
Recalling the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Jo urnalists and
the Issue of Impunity, endorsed by the United Nations System Chief Executives
Board for Coordination on 12 April 2012, in which United Nations agencies, funds
and programmes were invited to work with Member States towards a free and safe
environment for journalists and media workers in both conflict and non -conflict
situations, with a view to strengthening peace, democracy and development
worldwide,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 20/8 of 5 July 2012 on the
promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet, 6 21/12 of
27 September 2012 on the safety of journalists, 7and 24/15 of 27 September 2013 on
the World Programme for Human Rights Education 8 and Council decision 24/116 of
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
Resolution 61/177, annex.
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.
5
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
6
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and
corrigendum (A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. IV, sect. A.
7
Ibid., Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. III.
8
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.
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