A/RES/74/156
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
questions, including alternative approaches for improving
the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.2)]
74/156.
National human rights institutions
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its relevant resolutions, as well as those of the Human Rights
Council and the Commission on Human Rights on national institutions for the
promotion and protection of human rights, including most recently Council resolution
39/17 of 28 September 2018 1 and General Assembly resolution 72/181 of
19 December 2017, as well as the previous resolutions on the role of the Ombudsman,
mediator institutions and other national human rights institutions 2 in the promotion
and protection of human rights,
Recalling also the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the
promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles), 3 welcoming the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Principles, and noting with appreciation
the establishment of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions,
Recalling further the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by
the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 4 which reaffirmed the
important and constructive role played by national human rights institutions, in
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/73/53/Add.1), chap. III.
“National human rights institutions” and “national institutions for the promotion and protection
of human rights” are used synonymously.
Resolution 48/134, annex.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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