A/RES/52/128 Page 2 Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993,1 which reaffirmed the important and constructive role played by national human rights institutions, in particular in their advisory capacity to the competent authorities and in their role in remedying human rights violations, in disseminating information on human rights and in education on human rights, Recalling also the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women,2 in which Governments were urged to create or strengthen independent national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, including the human rights of women, Noting the diverse approaches adopted throughout the world for the protection and promotion of human rights at the national level, emphasizing the universality, indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights, and emphasizing and recognizing the value of such approaches in promoting universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, Noting with satisfaction the constructive participation of representatives of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights in, and their positive contribution to, the deliberations of the World Conference on Human Rights and the Commission on Human Rights, as well as international seminars and workshops on human rights organized or sponsored by the United Nations, Welcoming the strengthening of regional cooperation among national human rights institutions and, in particular, the first African Conference of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, held at Yaoundé in February 1996, the second International Workshop on Ombudsman and Human Rights Institutions, held at Chisinau in May 1996, the first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop of National Human Rights Institutions, held at Darwin, Australia, in July 1996, the second European Meeting of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, held at Copenhagen in January 1997, the third International Workshop on Ombudsman and National Human Rights Institutions, held at Riga in June 1997, and the second meeting of the Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop of National Human Rights Institutions, held at New Delhi in September 1997, as well as the holding of the fourth International Workshop on Ombudsman and National Human Rights Institutions, at Merida, Mexico, in November 1997, 1. Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General;3 2. Reaffirms the importance of the development of effective, independent and pluralistic national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, in keeping with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights contained in the annex to resolution 48/134; 1 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. 2 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. 3 A/52/468. /...