United Nations
A/RES/71/189
General Assembly
Distr.: General
2 February 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 68 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/484/Add.2)]
71/189. Declaration on the Right to Peace
The General Assembly,
Recalling all previous resolutions on the promotion of the right to peace and the
promotion of peace as a vital requirement for the full enjoyment of all human rights
by all, adopted by the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and th e
Human Rights Council, in particular Council resolution 20/15 of 5 July 2012, 1
Stressing that peace is a vital requirement for the promotion and protection of
all human rights for all,
Welcoming the adoption by the Human Rights Council, by its resolution 32/28
of 1 July 2016, 2 of the Declaration on the Right to Peace,
1.
Adopts the Declaration on the Right to Peace, as contained in the annex
to the present resolution;
2.
Invites Governments, agencies and organizations of the United Nations
system and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to disseminate
the Declaration and to promote universal respect and understanding thereof;
3.
Decides to continue consideration of the question of the promotion of the
right to peace at its seventy-third session under the item entitled “Promotion and
protection of human rights”.
65th plenary meeting
19 December 2016
Annex
Declaration on the Right to Peace
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum
(A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. IV, sect. A.
2
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53), chap. II.
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