A/RES/71/193
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
Recognizing the universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated
character of all human rights, and in this regard reaffirming the right to development
as an integral part of all human rights,
Recalling the Final Document of the Sixteenth Ministerial Conference and
Commemorative Meeting of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Bali,
Indonesia, from 23 to 27 May 2011, 9 the Final Document of the Seventeenth
Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held on
Margarita Island, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, from 13 to 18 September 2016,
and the documents adopted at previous summits and conferences, in which States
members of the Movement agreed to oppose and condemn those measures or laws
and their continued application, persevere with efforts to effectively reverse them,
urge other States to do likewise, as called for by the General Assembly and other
organs of the United Nations, and request States applying those measures or laws to
revoke them fully and immediately,
Recalling also that, at the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna
from 14 to 25 June 1993, States were called upon to refrain from any unilateral
measure not in accordance with international law and the Charter that creates
obstacles to trade relations among States and impedes the full realization of all
human rights 10 and also severely threatens the freedom of trade,
Bearing in mind all the references to this question in the Copenhagen
Declaration on Social Development, adopted by the World Sum mit for Social
Development on 12 March 1995, 11 the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,
adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995, 12 the
Quito Declaration on Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements for All and the
Quito implementation plan for the New Urban Agenda, adopted by the United
Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III)
on 20 October 2016, 13 and in the outcome document of the United Nations summit
for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Dev elopment”, in which
States are strongly urged to refrain from promulgating and applying any unilateral
economic, financial or trade measures not in accordance with international law and
the Charter of the United Nations that impede the full achievement of economic and
social development, particularly in developing countries,
Expressing concern about the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures
on international relations, trade, investment and cooperation,
Expressing grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is
adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with
international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among
States, impede the full realization of social and economic deve lopment and hinder
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9
A/65/896-S/2011/407, annex I.
See A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
11
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.
12
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.
13
See resolution 71/256, annex.
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