A/RES/79/173
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 December 2024
Seventy-ninth session
Agenda item 71 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
questions, including alternative approaches for improving
the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2024
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/79/458/Add.2, para. 99)]
79/173.
Missing persons
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes, principles and provisions of the Charter of the United
Nations,
Guided also by the principles and norms of international humanitarian law, in
particular the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 1 and the Additional Protocols
thereto of 1977, 2 as well as international standards and instruments of human rights,
in particular the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 3 the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 4 the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, 5 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, 6 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 7 and the Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human
Rights on 25 June 1993, 8
Recalling the accession by 76 States to the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 9 and calling upon States that
have not yet done so to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to it as a matter of
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1
Unit ed Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
Resolution 217 A (III).
4
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
5
Ibid.
6
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
7
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
8
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
9
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2716, No. 48088.
2
3
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