A/HRC/RES/41/13
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 July 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-first session
24 June–12 July 2019
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 July 2019
41/13.
Youth and human rights
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and relevant international
human rights instruments, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
Recalling also Human Rights Council resolutions 32/1 of 30 June 2016 and 35/14 of
22 June 2017 on youth and human rights,
Recalling further all previous relevant resolutions, including the most recent, namely,
General Assembly resolutions 72/146 of 19 December 2017 on policies and programmes
involving youth, and 50/81 of 14 December 1995, by which the Assembly adopted the World
Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, and its subsequent resolution
62/126 of 18 December 2007,
Acknowledging that the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and
Beyond provided a policy framework and practical guidelines for national action and
international support to improve the situation of young people,
Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, in which it is stated that
all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated, interdependent and mutually
reinforcing, and that all human rights must be treated in a fair and equal manner, on the same
footing and with the same emphasis,
Encouraging States to effectively implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, and reaffirming the need to develop and implement strategies that give young
people everywhere real opportunities to enable their full, effective and meaningful
participation in society,
Recalling the high-level event held by the General Assembly on 29 May 2015 to mark
the twentieth anniversary of the World Programme of Action for Youth, which offered an
important opportunity for Member States and other relevant stakeholders to take stock of the
progress made in its implementation and to identify gaps and challenges, and the way forward
for its full, effective and accelerated implementation,
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