A/RES/78/220
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 71 (c)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs
and representatives
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/481/Add.3, para. 33)]
78/220.
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, as well as the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants on Human Rights 2 and
other international human rights instruments,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in the Islamic
Republic of Iran, the most recent of which is resolution 77/228 of 15 December 2022,
Welcoming Human Rights Council resolution S-35/1 of 24 November 2022, 3 in
which the Council decided to establish the Independent International Fact -Finding
Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Human Rights Council resolution 52/27
of 4 April 2023, in which the Council renewed the mandate of the Special Rapporteur
on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 4
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to
resolution 77/228 5 and the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights
Council on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 6 submitted
pursuant to Council resolution 52/27;
2.
Welcomes the continuing efforts of the Islamic Republic of Iran to host one
of the largest refugee populations in the world, including approximately 4.5 million
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/78/53), chap. III.
Ibid., chap. V., sect. A.
A/78/511.
A/78/326.
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