A/RES/76/158
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2021
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/76/462/Add.2, para. 114)]
76/158.
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, 1
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 resolutions
70/160 of 17 December 2015, 72/183 of 19 December 2017 and 74/161 of
18 December 2019, as well as relevant resolutions adopted by the Human Rights
Council, including resolution 36/6 of 28 September 2017 2 and resolution 45/3 of
6 October 2020, 3
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, 4
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2716, No. 48088.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/75/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
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