A/RES/74/165
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70 (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 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.2)]
74/165.
Effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons
Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 47/135 of 18 December 1992, by which it adopted the
Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and
Linguistic Minorities annexed to that resolution, and bearing in mind article 27 of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1 as well as other relevant existing
international and regional standards and national legislation,
Recalling also its subsequent resolutions on the effective promotion of the
Declaration and all relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolution 32/5 of 30 June 2016,
entitled “Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality”, 2 and all previous
resolutions adopted by the Human Rights Council and the Commission on Human
Rights on the issue of human rights and the arbitrary deprivation of nationality,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 37/14 of 22 March 2018, 3 in which
the Council considered the recommendations of the Forum on Minority Issues at its
tenth session, held in December 2017, on the rights of minority youth, 4
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See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/71/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
A/HRC/37/73.
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