A/RES/73/173
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/589/Add.2)]
73/173.
Promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental
freedoms, including the rights to peaceful assembly and
freedom of association
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants on Human
Rights 2 and other relevant instruments,
Recalling its resolution 53/144 of 9 December 1998, by which it adopted by
consensus the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and
Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Right s and
Fundamental Freedoms, commonly referred to as the Declaration on Human Rights
Defenders, and all its subsequent resolutions on this subject, including its resolutions
66/164 of 19 December 2011, 68/181 of 18 December 2013, 70/161 of 17 December
2015 and 72/247 of 24 December 2017, and recalling also all United Nations
resolutions related to the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
and all resolutions of the Human Rights Council on human rights defenders, civil
society space, safety of journalists, equal political participation, promotion and
protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests and the rights to freedom
of peaceful assembly and of association,
Noting that 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action 3 and the twentieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right
and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and
Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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