A/RES/72/183 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 23 January 2018 Seventy-second session Agenda item 72 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2017 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.2)] 72/183. International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance The General Assembly, Reaffirming its resolution 61/177 of 20 December 2006, by which it adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, Recalling its resolution 47/133 of 18 December 1992, by which it adopted the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance as a body of principles for all States, Recalling also all its other resolutions on the matter, including resolution 70/160 of 17 December 2015, as well as relevant resolutions adopted by the Human Rights Council, including resolution 36/6 of 28 September 2017, 1 Recalling further its resolution 68/165 of 18 December 2013 on the right to the truth, as well as Human Rights Council resolution 36/7 of 28 September 2017 on the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, 1 Recalling its resolution 71/185 of 19 December 2016 on the human rights treaty body system, Recalling also that no one shall be subjected to enforced disappearance, Recalling further that no exceptional circumstance whatsoever may be invoked as a justification for enforced disappearance, Recalling that no one shall be held in secret detention, __________________ 1 17-23175 (E) See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III. 260118 *1723175*

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