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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/176
15 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 116 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/605/Add.2)]
54/176. National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights
The General Assembly,
Recalling the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights
concerning national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights,
Welcoming the rapidly growing interest throughout the world in the creation and strengthening of
independent, pluralistic national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights,
Convinced of the important role national institutions play and will continue to play in promoting and
protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms and in developing and enhancing public awareness of
those rights and freedoms,
Recognizing that the United Nations has played an important role and should continue to play a more
important role in assisting the development of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human
rights,
Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on
Human Rights on 25 June 1993,1 which reaffirmed the important and constructive role played by national
human rights institutions, in particular in their advisory capacity to the competent authorities and their role
1
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
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