A/HRC/RES/17/16
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 July 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Seventeenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
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Promotion of the right of peoples to peace
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all previous resolutions on the promotion of the right of peoples to peace
adopted by the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human
Rights Council,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 39/11 of 12 November 1984 entitled
“Declaration of the Right of Peoples to Peace” and the United Nations Millennium
Declaration,
Determined to foster strict respect for the purposes and principles enshrined in the
Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, adopted
by the General Assembly in its resolution 53/243 of 13 September 1999, as well as
Assembly resolution 53/25 of 10 November 1998, in which the Assembly proclaimed the
period 2001–2010 as the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for
the Children of the World,
Bearing in mind that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve
international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural
or humanitarian character, and to promote and encourage respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all without distinction of race, sex, language or religion,
Underlining, in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations,
its full and active support for the Organization and the enhancement of its role and
effectiveness in strengthening international peace, security and justice and in promoting the
solution of international problems and the development of friendly relations and
cooperation among States,
Reaffirming the obligation of all States to settle their international disputes by
peaceful means in such a manner that international peace, security, human rights and justice
are not endangered,
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