A/RES/74/157
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 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)]
74/157.
The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 and recalling relevant
international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights 2 and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons
from Enforced Disappearance, 3 as well as the Geneva Conventions of 12 August
1949 4 and the Additional Protocols thereto, 5
Recalling its previous resolutions on the safety of journalists and the issue of
impunity, including resolution 68/163 of 18 December 2013, in which it proclaimed
2 November as the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists,
and resolutions 69/185 of 18 December 2014, 70/162 of 17 December 2015 and
72/175 of 19 December 2017,
Welcoming the latest report of the Secretary-General on the safety of journalists
and the issue of impunity, the current situation and the actions undertaken so far in
relation thereto, 6
Taking note with appreciation of the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety
of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, endorsed by the United Nations System Chief
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2716, No. 48088.
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
A/74/314.
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