A/RES/78/221
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 71 (c)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs
and representatives
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/481/Add.3, para. 33)]
78/221.
Situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied territories
of Ukraine, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the
city of Sevastopol
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and
recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 international human rights
treaties and other relevant international instruments and declarations,
Recalling the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination, 2 the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 3 the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, 4 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 5 and the Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 6 as well as the United Nations Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 7
Recalling also the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 8 and Additional
Protocol I thereto, of 1977, 9 as applicable, as well as relevant customary international
law,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 1465, No. 24841.
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Resolution 61/295, annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, No. 17512.
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