A/RES/72/183
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.2)]
72/183.
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons
from Enforced Disappearance
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 61/177 of 20 December 2006, by which it adopted
and opened for signature, ratification and accession the International Convention for
the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance,
Recalling its resolution 47/133 of 18 December 1992, by which it adopted the
Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance as a body
of principles for all States,
Recalling also all its other resolutions on the matter, including resolution 70/160
of 17 December 2015, as well as relevant resolutions adopted by the Human Rights
Council, including resolution 36/6 of 28 September 2017, 1
Recalling further its resolution 68/165 of 18 December 2013 on the right to the
truth, as well as Human Rights Council resolution 36/7 of 28 September 2017 on the
Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of
non-recurrence, 1
Recalling its resolution 71/185 of 19 December 2016 on the human rights treaty
body system,
Recalling also that no one shall be subjected to enforced disappearance,
Recalling further that no exceptional circumstance whatsoever may be invoked
as a justification for enforced disappearance,
Recalling that no one shall be held in secret detention,
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
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