A/RES/72/168
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 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)]
72/168.
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on this subject, the most recent of which
was resolution 71/193 of 19 December 2016, and Human Rights Council decision
18/120 of 30 September 2011 1 and resolutions 24/14 of 27 September 2013, 2 27/21
of 26 September 2014, 3 30/2 of 1 October 2015 4 and 36/10 of 28 September 2017, 5
as well as previous resolutions of the Council and the Commission on Human
Rights,
Reaffirming the pertinent principles and provisions contained in the Charter of
Economic Rights and Duties of States proclaimed by the General Assembly in its
resolution 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, in particular article 32 thereof, in
which it declared that no State may use or encourage the use of economic, political
or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the
subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights,
Taking note of the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights
Council on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of
human rights, submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 71/193 6 and to
Human Rights Council resolutions 27/21 and 30/2, 7 and recalling the reports of the
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and
corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.1 and A/66/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1,
A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
A/72/370.
A/HRC/33/48.
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