A/HRC/RES/45/17
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 October 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-fifth session
14 September–7 October 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 6 October 2020
45/17.
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human
rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of
hazardous substances and wastes
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
and the Declaration on the Right to Development,
Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March
2006,
Recalling its resolution 5/1 on institution-building of the Human Rights Council and
resolution 5/2 on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the
Council, both of 18 June 2007, and emphasizing that the mandate holder is to discharge his
or her duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Recalling also its resolutions 9/1 of 24 September 2008, 18/11 of 29 September 2011,
21/17 of 27 September 2012, 27/23 of 26 September 2014 and 36/15 of 28 September 2017
and all the resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights on this subject,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, by which
the Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including target 12.4
of the Sustainable Development Goals to achieve, by 2020, the environmentally sound
management of chemicals and hazardous wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance
with international standards, and affirming the interlinkages and integrated nature of all the
Goals,
Expressing concern at the key finding of the United Nations Environment Programme
contained in the summary for policymakers of the Global Chemicals Outlook II that the
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