A/RES/70/229
United Nations
Distr.: General
29 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 28
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/481)]
70/229. Persons with albinism
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 and recalling
relevant international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, 2 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination, 3 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 4
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 5
and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 and the World Programme of Action
concerning Disabled Persons, 7
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 24/33 of 27 September 2013 on
technical cooperation for the prevention of attacks against persons with albinism, 8
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 69/170 of 18 December 2014, by
which the Assembly decided to proclaim 13 June as International Albinism
Awareness Day, with effect from 2015, and Human Rights Cou ncil resolution 28/6
of 26 March 2015, 9 by which the Council established the mandate of the
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism,
Taking note of the preliminary report on persons with albinism submitted by
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the
Human Rights Council at its twenty-fourth session, 10
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
4
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
5
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
6
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
7
A/37/351/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex, sect. VIII, recommendation 1 (IV).
8
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1),
chap. III.
9
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. III, sect. A.
10
A/HRC/24/57.
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