A/RES/69/172
United Nations
Distr.: General
18 February 2015
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 68 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/488/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
69/172. Human rights in the administration of justice
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind the principles embodied in articles 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 and the relevant provisions of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocols
thereto, 2 in particular articles 6, 7, 9, 10, 14 and 15 of the Covenant, the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
and the Optional Protocol thereto, 3 the International Convention for the Protection
of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 4 the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 5 in particular article 2 (c) thereof, the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 in particular articles 37, 39 and 40 thereof,
and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 7 as well as
all other relevant international treaties,
Calling attention to the numerous international standards in the field of the
administration of justice,
Recalling all the resolutions of the General Assembly, the Human Rights
Council, the Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council
that are relevant to the subject of human rights in the administration of justice,
including General Assembly resolutions 65/213 of 21 December 2010 and 67/166 of
20 December 2012 and Human Rights Council resolutions 18/12 of 29 September
2011 8 and 24/12 of 26 September 2013, 9
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex; and United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1642, No. 14688.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 1465 and 2375, No. 24841.
4
Resolution 61/177, annex.
5
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
6
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
7
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
8
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum
(A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. II.
9
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.
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