United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/60/154
Distr.: General
23 February 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 71 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/509/Add.2 (Part II))]
60/154. National institutions for the promotion and protection
of human rights
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions and those of the Commission on Human Rights
concerning national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights,
Welcoming the rapidly growing interest throughout the world in the creation
and strengthening of independent, pluralistic national institutions for the promotion
and protection of human rights,
Convinced of the important role that such national institutions play and will
continue to play in promoting and protecting human rights and fundamental
freedoms and in developing and enhancing public awareness of those rights and
freedoms,
Recognizing that the United Nations has played an important role and should
continue to play a more important role in assisting the development of national
institutions,
Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the
World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June l993, 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 their role in remedying
human rights violations, in disseminating information on human rights and in
education in human rights,
Recalling also the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 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,
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A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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, annexes I and II.
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