A/HRC/RES/43/17
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 July 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-third session
24 February–13 March and 15–23 June 2020
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 22 June 2020
43/17.
Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human
rights
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 32/127 of 16 December 1977 and subsequent
Assembly resolutions concerning regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of
human rights, the latest being resolution 63/170 of 18 December 2008,
Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/51 of 9 March 1993
and subsequent Commission resolutions in this regard, and Human Rights Council
resolutions 6/20 of 28 September 2007, 12/15 of 1 October 2009, 18/14 of 29 September
2011, 24/19 of 27 September 2013, 30/3 of 1 October 2015 and 34/17 of 24 March 2017,
Bearing in mind paragraph 5 (h) of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March
2006, in which the Assembly decided that the Council should work in close cooperation with
regional organizations,
Bearing in mind also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by
the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, which reiterates, inter alia, the
need to consider the possibility of establishing regional and subregional arrangements for the
promotion and protection of human rights where they do not already exist,
Reaffirming the fact that regional arrangements play an important role in promoting
and protecting human rights and should reinforce universal human rights standards, as
contained in international human rights instruments,
1.
Welcomes the progress made by Governments in the establishment of regional
and subregional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, and their
achievements in all regions of the world;
2.
Also welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights on the workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human
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