A/HRC/RES/32/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 July 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-second session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 30 June 2016
32/1.
Youth and human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposed and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and relevant international
human rights instruments, in particular the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
Recalling also all previous relevant resolutions, including the most recent, namely,
General Assembly resolution 70/127 of 17 December 2015 on policies and programmes
involving youth, and Assembly resolution 50/81 of 14 December 1995, by which the
Assembly adopted the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and
Beyond,
Recalling further the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, which states
that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated, interdependent and mutually
reinforcing, and that all human rights must be treated in a fair and equal manner, on the
same footing and with the same emphasis,
Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 and
reaffirming the need to develop and implement strategies that give young people
everywhere real opportunities for full, effective and constructive participation in society,
Welcoming also the high-level event held by the General Assembly on 29 May 2015
to mark the twentieth anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth, which
offered an important opportunity for Member States and other relevant stakeholders to take
stock of progress made in its implementation, and to identify gaps and challenges and the
way forward for its full, effective and accelerated implementation,
Looking forward to further contributions by the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights, the special procedures and the treaty bodies, and the Envoy of the
Secretary-General on Youth, and other relevant international and regional human rights
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General Assembly resolution 70/1.
GE.16-12172(E)