A/RES/69/173
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)]
69/173. Globalization and its impact on the full enjoyment of all
human rights
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
and expressing, in particular, the need to achieve international cooperation in
promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for
all without distinction,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 as well as the Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human
Rights on 25 June 1993, 2 the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action adopted
by the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and
Related Intolerance on 8 September 2001, 3 the outcome document of the Durban
Review Conference, adopted on 24 April 2009, 4 and the political declaration of the
high-level meeting of the General Assembly to commemorate the tenth anniversary
of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, entitled
“United against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”,
of 22 September 2011, 5
Recalling also the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 6 and
the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,6
Recalling further the Declaration on the Right to Development adopted by the
General Assembly in its resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986,
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration 7 and the outcome
documents of the twenty-third 8 and twenty-fourth 9 special sessions of the General
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
3
See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
4
See A/CONF.211/8, chap. I.
5
Resolution 66/3.
6
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
7
Resolution 55/2.
8
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
9
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
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