A/HRC/RES/55/15
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 April 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fifth session
26 February–5 April 2024
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 4 April 2024
55/15.
Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and
linguistic minorities
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities and the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic,
Religious and Linguistic Minorities, adopted by consensus by the General Assembly by its
resolution 47/135 of 18 December 1992,
Mindful of article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and
article 30 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Recalling all previous resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the Commission
on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the rights of persons belonging to
national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities,
Recalling also the paragraphs in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
and the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action relating to the rights of persons
belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and other relevant
international standards,
Reaffirming the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, of which the Addis
Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development
is an integral part, recalling that the Sustainable Development Goals and targets seek to
realize the human rights of all, and stressing the need for States to integrate the 2030 Agenda
into their respective national policies and development frameworks, as appropriate, to
promote the effective implementation of, follow-up to and review of the 2030 Agenda in
order to ensure that no one is left behind,
Emphasizing the need to strengthen efforts to meet the goal of the full enjoyment of
the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities,
including by addressing their economic and social conditions and marginalization, and to end
any type of discrimination against them,
GE.24-06340 (E)