A/RES/74/156
National human rights institutions
particular in their advisory capacity to the competent authorities and their role in
preventing and remedying human rights violations, in disseminating information on
human rights and in education in human rights,
Reaffirming the importance of, and welcoming the rapidly growing interest
throughout the world in, establishing and strengthening independent and pluralistic
national human rights institutions in accordance with the Paris Principles,
Reaffirming also the important role that such national institutions play and will
continue to play in promoting and protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms,
strengthening participation, in particular of civil society organizations, promoting the
rule of law and contributing to the prevention of human rights violations and abuses,
Encouraging greater efforts to investigate and respond to increasing reports of
cases of reprisal against national human rights institutions, their members and staff
and those who cooperate or seek to cooperate with them,
Recognizing the role that national human rights institutions can play in
preventing and addressing cases of reprisal as part of supporting the cooperation
between States and the United Nations in the promotion of human rights, including
by contributing to follow-up actions, as appropriate, to recommendations made by
international human rights mechanisms,
Taking note of the Belgrade principles on the relationship between national
human rights institutions and parliaments, 5
Recognizing the important role of the United Nations, in particular the Office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in assisting the development
of independent and effective national human rights institutions, guided by the Paris
Principles, and recognizing also in this regard the potential for strengthened and
complementary cooperation among the United Nations, the Global Alliance of
National Human Rights Institutions and its regional coordinating networks and those
national institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights,
Recalling the programme of action adopted by national institutions for the
promotion and protection of human rights at their meeting held in Vienna in June
1993 during the World Conference on Human Rights, in which it was recommended
that United Nations activities and programmes should be reinforced to meet the
requests for assistance from States wishing to establish or strengthen their national
institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights,
Taking note with appreciation of the reports of the Secretary-General on national
institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights 6 and on the activities of
the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions in accrediting national
institutions in compliance with the principles relating to the status of institut ions for
the promotion and protection of human rights (Paris Principles), 7
Welcoming efforts to strengthen United Nations system-wide coordination in
support of national human rights institutions and their networks, including the
establishment of the tripartite partnership between the United Nations Development
Programme, the Office of the High Commissioner and the Global Alliance of National
Human Rights Institutions, and recognizing the potential for further cooperation in
this regard between the United Nations mechanisms and processes and with national
human rights institutions,
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