A/HRC/RES/52/11
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 April 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-second session
27 February–4 April 2023
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 3 April 2023
52/11.
Question of the realization in all countries of economic, social and
cultural rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Guided also by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and all other relevant human rights
instruments, and by the principles of economic, social and cultural rights therein enshrined,
Reaffirming that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and
recognizing that these rights derive from the inherent dignity of the human person,
Recalling, as highlighted in, inter alia, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of
Action, that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated, interdependent and
mutually reinforcing, and must be treated in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and
with the same emphasis, and recalling also that the respect, protection and fulfilment of one
category of rights should never exempt States from the respect, protection and fulfilment of
the other rights,
Reaffirming Human Rights Council resolutions on the question of the realization in
all countries of economic, social and cultural rights, the latest of which being Council
resolution 46/10 of 23 March 2021, and the resolutions adopted by the Commission on
Human Rights on the same topic,
Reaffirming also Human Rights Council resolution 42/13 of 26 September 2019 on
the right to social security,
Recalling the Sustainable Development Goals and their specific and interlinked
targets, which cover a wide range of issues relating to economic, social and cultural rights,
and acknowledging that the promotion, protection and realization of human rights and the
implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are interrelated and
mutually reinforcing,
Recognizing that the 2030 Agenda is guided by the purposes and principles of the
Charter, including full respect for international law, and is grounded in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights treaties, the United Nations
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